Diala Shamas is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will participate on a panel, Human Rights After Trump: Survival and Resistance , at this year’s International Law Weekend (ILW), presented by the American Branch of the...
Updated: September 5, 2017
The Darkest Corner , authored by the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School in collaboration with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), documents a secretive form of...
Updated: August 31, 2021
With the world watching with much interest the FBI's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia, other issues dogging this administration have somewhat...
Updated: November 3, 2017
November 15, 2017Fault Lines reporter Femi Oke went to Oakland, California, to better understand the history of surveillance and to see how far the government can go when its powers remain unchecked. Trouble seeing...
The Honorable Elaine C. Duke Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Department of Homeland Security Washington, DC 20528 November 16, 2017 Dear Secretary Duke: We are a coalition of 56 civil rights,...
Updated: November 16, 2017
This panel explores the different ways criminalization fractures communities and separates people from the place(s) they call home. Bringing together activists from New York City to Palestine "The...
Updated: November 21, 2017
The US Human Rights Network’s 2017 national conference will be a space for collective healing, reflection, and cooperative strategy. In 2017, a new federal administration rose to power using...
Updated: November 21, 2017
December 4, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
November 30, 2017Remember the collective side-eye the internet gave the FBI when it declared "black identity extremists" a domestic terrorism threat ? Well, according to department emails reviewed by Al Jazeera , it...
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