January 16, 2014, Geneva – Today, the Vatican was summoned before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to report on its record in addressing widespread sexual violence within...
March 18, 2014, New York – Members of the Vulcan Society of Black Firefighters and their attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and Levy Ratner, P.C. announced today that a...
CCR Legal Worker Ian Head will moderate a panel at the National Lawyers Guild Convention on October 12th in Pasadena California. New COINTELPRO: How the NLG is Responding to the Targeting of Muslim...
Updated: October 11, 2012
CCR will co-sponsor a film screening on Thursday, January 9th as a part of the Close Guantánamo Tour this January. Please also click here for additional events happening nationwide through...
Updated: January 8, 2014
This article was originally posted on Huffington Post on November 30, 2010 "Information is the currency of democracy." -- Thomas Jefferson. Since 9-11, the US government, through Presidents...
Updated: November 30, 2010
This was originally posted on Huffington Post on December 15, 2010 Well, that didn't take long. Last week I blogged about concerns that "the U.S. government is likely manipulating the Swedish...
Updated: December 15, 2010
On June 5, 2014, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Campaign to Preserve Mamilla Jerusalem Cemetery sent a letter to the Chairman of the Organization of Islamic Countries and the...
Updated: June 9, 2014
October 12, 2015Answer: When the child is Black and the shooter is a police officer. Welcome to America, where #BlackLivesMatter is a trending hashtag, but police impunity is a lethal reality of Black life. There’s...
December 21, 2016As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
Background: From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been on...
Updated: April 12, 2017
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