Last Thursday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) celebrated “ The Activists Files’ ” official launch on iTunes. Guests enjoyed wine and hors d’oeuvres and played a game of “Would You Rather...
CCR and Muslim Advocates File FOIA Lawsuit on Opaque Muslim Ban Waiver Process Washington, DC – Following the United States Supreme Court decision to uphold the Muslim Ban, Muslim Advocates (MA) and...
So-Called “Traffic Safety” Checkpoints and Tickets Target People of Color to Raise Revenue for City, Lawsuit Alleges June 28, 2018, Buffalo, NY – Today, civil rights groups filed a class action...
...Most importantly, the ban continues the Trump administration’s vicious assault on multiple forms of immigration. A recent report by the Center for Constitutional Rights has documented how the...
The Buffalo Police Department discriminated against people of color through traffic enforcement practices, including checkpoints that targeted neighborhoods where the majority of residents are black...
...This is the process many Yemenis must undergo to obtain US visas, explains Diala Shamas, a staff attorney at the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. The center oversees the Yemeni...
...Recently a delegation from the Center for Constitutional Rights and Yale Law School traveled to Djibouti to interview Yemenis stuck in the small coastal nation. While there, the team was contacted...
...Ibraham Qatabi, a legal worker at The Center for Constitutional Rights, told NPR that Mozeb’s situation is not uncommon. “Some had already been told their visas were approved only to later be...
...About 44,000 Yemeni-Americans live in the U.S., according to the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights. When the U.S. Embassy in the capital of Sanaa closed after the outbreak of war,...
...“All of them were hanging their hopes on the Supreme Court decision,” said Diala Shamas, a staff lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based advocacy group that sent...
