A detainee who had been on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay for nine years has been transferred out of the facility, the Obama administration announced Saturday. According to a statement from the...
Yesterday morning, the New York Times editorial board took note of Obama Administration’s latest policy inconsistency: fighting in the Supreme Court this week to halt deportations of many...
Who will hold Israel accountable? The answer, so far, is no one. But on this rare trip to the U.S., I am seeing signs that suggest the dam is breaking. The cracks in the dam are coming from civil...
Optimistic that future for justice lies with growing Palestinian solidarity movement April 25, 2016, Ramallah, Gaza City, New York – Two of Palestine’s most prominent human rights defenders – Raji...
Please join CCR and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our monthly vigil on May 2. The May vigil will focus on the case of Ahmed Ferhani. In early April, Ahmed was put into...
Last week , community members in San Jose, California spoke out at a forum on police body-cameras. Their number one concern: cameras being turned on or off “when police officers feel like it.” This...
It’s now been nine months since the first news stories were published about a cancer cluster, possibly linked to the presence of environmental toxins, afflicting lawyers and other staff at the...
Bills are part of a broader trend to silence U.S. supporters of Palestinian rights April 28, 2016 – Today, Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent copies of their report...
The Greater Los Angeles Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today announced the filing of a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of a Muslim-American woman who had her...
In recent weeks, governors , mayors , major businesses , and entertainers have joined a boycott of North Carolina and Mississippi as a way of protesting new state laws that license discrimination...
