October 31, 2007, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel issued a statement today in response to the news that the State Department had promised the employees of...
January 27, 2017Last night, CCR and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC , in association with The Public Theater's Public Forum , hosted an evening of storytelling and conversation about CCR’s Supreme...
On the 16th episode of “The Activist Files,” Advocacy Director Nadia Ben-Youssef speaks to Staff Attorney Diala Shamas and client Ziad Alwan about our intervention into a case filed by Israeli...
Updated: July 11, 2019
October 22, 2023...Goni and Sánchez Berzain will pay an unspecified amount to the victims’ families who were killed during country-wide protests in 2003, known as the Gas War. After failing to reach a solution to...
November 21, 2023 – The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing of Holly Maguigan, a pathbreaking criminal defense lawyer, teacher, and scholar who changed public understanding of how the...
Stop-and-frisk attorneys respond to new Monitor’s report on Community Response Teams June 3, 2025, New York – The court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case against the NYPD, Floyd v...
August 14, 2013, Springfield, MA – Today, in a first-of-its kind case brought by a Ugandan LGBTI advocacy organization against a prominent U.S. anti-gay extremist, a federal judge ruled that...
June 10, 2013, New York— Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit brought against President Barack Obama, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), and the heads of...
Join CCR Board member Michael Smith and other esteemed panelist to discuss: The Rise of Racism & the Attack on Democratic Rights. Panel topics include: The Attack on Black People's Right to Self...
Updated: February 11, 2008
Support our partner in New Jersey and join their week of action to end immigration detention quotas ! Actions include this rally at Elizabeth Detention Center. For more background on the bed quota,...
Updated: August 11, 2015
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