In 2018, community leaders from East and Central Africa traveled to California to learn about the impacts of oil production, and how local activists have defended their rights and championed green alternatives.
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Human Rights Tools and the Fight Against Big Tobacco
The tobacco epidemic continues to worsen globally– 1.1 billion people smoke around the world, and 20% of all deaths in the US are attributable to tobacco. To counter this growing challenge, anti-tobacco organizations like Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) […]
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The Justice Trap Presents: Perpetual Punishment
NMAP worked with Brooklyn Defenders Services to create The Justice Trap, which was envisioned as a multimedia platform combining interactive design and short documentaries featuring victims of unjust policies and practices. Animated by Molly Crabapple, we created this video to […]
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Defending Gideon
In 1963, the Supreme Court, in Gideon v Wainwright, ruled that every criminal defendant is entitled to a lawyer. 50 years later, the United States has not lived up to the great promise of the Gideon case. NMAP produced this short […]
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NMAP’s Highlight Reel: Reframing Human Rights in 2017
Despite what made the headlines about the state of human rights, 2017 was full of stories of people everywhere standing up and saying no to corporate abuse; taking to the streets to protest government corruption; and calling out unjust criminal […]
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Waiting for Fahd: One Family’s Hope for Life Beyond Guantánamo
Waiting for Fahd tells the story of Center for Constitutional Rights client Fahd Ghazy, a Yemeni national unlawfully detained at Guantánamo since he was 17 and who is now 30. Through moving interviews with his beloved family in Yemen, “Waiting […]
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The Price of Bail in NYC
In partnership with Brooklyn Defenders Services, NMAP produced this video to demonstrate how the cash bail system in New York City targets the poor and undermines the goals of the criminal justice system.
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The Justice Trap Presents: Kejuan
NMAP worked with Brooklyn Defenders Services to create The Justice Trap, which was envisioned as a multimedia platform combining interactive design and short documentaries featuring victims of unjust policies and practices. Kejuan is one of those victims. The project strives […]
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The Justice Trap Presents: Colyssa
NMAP worked with Brooklyn Defenders Services to create The Justice Trap, which was envisioned as a multimedia platform combining interactive design and short documentaries featuring victims of unjust policies and practices. Colyssa is one of those victims. The project strives […]
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The Justice Trap Highlight Reel
NMAP worked with Brooklyn Defenders Services to create The Justice Trap, which was envisioned as a multimedia platform combining interactive design and short documentaries featuring victims of unjust policies and practices. This highlight reel from the project shows how the […]
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The Justice Trap
In recent years, criminal justice reform has entered the public consciousness with an intensity and passion like never before. Conversations tend to stop short when it comes to naming solutions, though, leaving the public and policymakers alike with a nebulous […]
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Student Fraud Relief: Tasha’s Story
When the Corinthian colleges told their students empty promises and robbed them of their time and money, thousands of students were left with invalid certificates, unemployed, and debt. NMAP partnered with Public Counsel, the largest pro bono law firm in […]
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Student Fraud Relief: Nathan’s Story
When the Corinthian colleges told their students empty promises and robbed them of their time and money, thousands of students were left with invalid certificates, unemployed, and debt. NMAP partnered with Public Counsel, the largest pro bono law firm in […]
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Student Fraud Relief: How to Apply for Federal Loan Forgiveness
In 2015, Department of Justice found that Corinthian College Inc, the company that owned Everest, WyoTech, and Heald colleges, had routinely lied to their students in order to drive up enrollment rates. For this reason, the US DoE offers federal […]
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Separate and Unequal: Health Care Disparities in New York City
NMAP worked with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and their client, Bronx Health REACH on a challenging and complex legislative campaign on the segregation of healthcare services in New York City. Many large private hospitals in New York […]
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Restoring Local Democracy in Michigan
NMAP teamed up with the Advancement Project and local organizing group, Michigan Forward, to challenge Michigan’s Public Act 4, which gave state-appointed “Emergency Managers” almost complete control over local governments, allowing them to dissolve existing democratically elected governments, sell off […]
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Protecting Native American Sovreignty
California’s Tule River Tribe provides a model for implementing a comprehensive public safety program, from tribe police officers to a fire department and ambulances.
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Ending Long-Term Solitary Confinement in California
Inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison were being held in solitary confinement for decades at time, isolated in a cell the size of a parking lot for 22 to 24 hours a day. Ten men in Pelican Bay sued the […]
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Small Claims Chapter 9 – Filing a Counterclaim
We collaborated with Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada to walk people through the process of representing themselves in small claims court.
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Small Claims Chapter 8 – Defending Against a Small Claims Case
We collaborated with Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada to walk people through the process of representing themselves in small claims court.
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