Retribution“swift and crushing” at Orange County Jail after speaking out against brutality, racist abuse, medical neglect April 4, 2023, New York – Federal and local officials waged a “far-reaching”...
July 6, 2023This Court’s obsession with “colorblindness” is a euphemistic mask for maintaining white supremacy
Staff attorneys conduct litigation and other forms of legal advocacy around existing Center for Constitutional Rights cases – and develop new, creative litigation and advocacy – in our issue areas,...
Updated: April 9, 2024
22 October 2008, Montreal – Human rights groups today urged Canada to offer refugee resettlement without delay to Djamel Ameziane, an Algerian who has been unlawfully detained for more than six years...
February 12, 2009, New York and Washington, DC— Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit confirm Department of Defense involvement in the CIA’s ghost detention program,...
May 13, 201, New York-- This week, a coalition of human rights and civil liberties organizations sent a letter to the members of the House Committee on Armed Services warning of the dangers of...
OFFICE OF THE WISCONSIN STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER 2009 ANNUAL CRIMINAL DEFENSE CONFERENCE JUSTICE FOR ALL? RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITY IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM September 24 & 25, 2009...
Updated: September 1, 2009
Download this Executive Summary as a PDF . Learn more about the case, SMUG v. Lively. In March 2012, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) filed a lawsuit against Scott Lively, a U.S.-based anti-gay...
Updated: May 23, 2016
February 21, 2018In early 2016, Indigenous activists on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in so-called North Dakota began protesting construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a 1,172-mile-long oil...
February 11, 2021In the six years since Ferguson, calls for accountability for the state-sanctioned murder of Black people have evolved to encompass demands to defund and abolish the prison-industrial complex (PIC)...
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