Movement lawyering is focus of fellowship December 6, 2018, New York – Four Bertha Justice Fellows will be spending the next two years at the Center for Constitutional Rights getting first-hand...
Submits Notice of Hearing Request in U.S. Court to Address Serious Concerns Regarding Physical and Mental Health December 6, 2018, The Hague/New York – Today, the legal representative for one of the...
November 20, 2018, Guantánamo – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights urged a Periodic Review Board (PRB) to recommend that Guled Hassan Duran be cleared for release from...
Migrant Justice Leaders at Risk of Deportation for Engaging in Protected First Amendment Activity November 14, 2018, Burlington, VT – Today, Vermont-based Migrant Justice filed a lawsuit in federal...
October 6, 2018, New York – In response to the Senate’s confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: The Center for...
Groups Condemn False Conflation of Sexual Orientation and Sexual Violence in Former Vatican Ambassador’s Letter as “Wrong and Dangerous” August 30, 2018, Washington D.C. -- Clergy sex abuse survivors...
August 15, 2018, New York – In the wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing widespread sexual violence across the state and cover-up by senior leaders of the Catholic Church in...
July 11, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued before a federal judge in a challenge to Donald Trump’s ongoing detention of men at Guantánamo...
U.S. Weapons Used to Fire on Palestinian Protesters May 15, 2018, Gaza, Washington, D.C. and New York – Today, a coalition of Palestinian and U.S.-based human rights groups submitted a letter to U.S...
May 14, 2018, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: Israel’s state violence against Palestinians must end. Today Israel continued its campaign of...