May 15, 2009, New York, New York – In response to President Obama’s announcement of his plans to revive the military commissions at Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
November 4, 2011, New York, NY – Today, amidst reports that the Israeli navy has intercepted the Freedom Waves Flotilla in international waters and boarded two boats attempting to deliver...
October 16, 2012, New York—Today, in response to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Hamdan v. United States to invalidate the material support provisions of the Military...
The criminal justice system may be criminal and it may be a system, but it can hardly be called just. Race and income play a major negative role in every part of the system. This talk will address...
Updated: March 23, 2010
After nine weeks of testimony challenging the constitutionality of the New York City Police Department's practice of unlawful stops and frisks, CCR’s historic Floyd et al. v. the City of New...
Updated: May 16, 2013
Join CCR at our monthly First Wednesday social to mingle with radical minds and for a short program about hunger strikers. We will discuss what inspires the world's longest hunger striker to continue...
Updated: July 30, 2014
October 2013By Vincent Warren The New York Post is having trouble understanding some basic tenets of democracy, which explains why they found my invitation for you to join us in court for today's important...
THE 2013 REPORT In May 2013, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) undertook a fact-finding mission in California and Louisiana to evaluate the...
Updated: October 25, 2013
Mohammed Kamin is an Afghan who has been detained at Guantánamo since 2004. Kamin was detained in U.S. custody in Khowst, Afghanistan in 2003 when his son, now 13 years old, was just a small boy. He...
Updated: September 8, 2016
August 25, 2016I joined the Center for Constitutional Rights through the Ella Baker Summer Fellowship Program to understand better how I, when I become a lawyer, can be more responsive and accountable to social...
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