September 1, 2018Survivors of clergy sex abuse stood in front of the Vatican embassy in Washington on Thursday and urged two higher powers -- the Pope and the US Department of Justice -- to take concrete steps to...
On the 17th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International USA, Justice for Muslims Collective, the National Religious...
Updated: January 4, 2019
March 6, 2019...The Associated Press reports that Center for Constitutional Rights legal director Babher Azmy celebrated the ruling and Brinkema’s decision to schedule an April trial. “After the smoke from more...
April 13, 2019... human rights advocates assailed the decision as a startling retreat from the court’s purpose of providing war-crimes victims with a means of seeking justice. Some said the language of the court’s...
April 25, 2019...The town of Mahwah “is applying the zoning law in an outrageous and irrational way, to limit the Ramapough from using the land in the way they have for centuries,” said Rachel Meeropol, a senior...
May 24, 2019...In order to explain this decision and how the right to privacy might be overturned, and how it can be defended, I’m joined by Chinyere Ezie. She’s a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional...
May 31, 2019...Government actors have, it seems, endless reasons to shroud their actions in secrecy; that’s why tools like the Freedom of Information Act and state open records laws are so critical. But it turns...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow, Brittany Thomas , at the 2019 Practising Law Institute's Prison Law Program as she discusses Client-centered...
Updated: October 11, 2019
Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow, Lupe Aguirre , will testify before the New York Senate Standing Committee on Codes Public Hearing on Civil Rights Law 50-a. 50-a is a...
Updated: October 17, 2019
In 2017, the Prosecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC), filed a request to open an investigation into alleged crimes in and related to the armed conflict in Afghanistan, including those...
Updated: November 25, 2019
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