It’s no secret that institutional policies and practices historically created and currently maintain racial discrimination. The movements for Black Lives, against Apartheid, and for Roma rights...
Updated: September 28, 2020
June 3, 2022... Center for Constitutional Rights who represent the Descendants Project sent a letter to the Louisiana attorney general and the Louisiana Division of Archaeology, requesting that they force the...
Also, Members of Congress, Scholars, NGOs, State Attorneys General File Six Amicus Briefs in Support of Ongoing Lawsuit SAN DIEGO – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Center for...
October 2009A federal appeals panel heard arguments in CCR's case, Wilner v. National Security Agency . The CCR argued for a reversal of the decision dismissing the CCR's Freedom of Information Request regarding...
To mark the shameful 10th anniversary of indefinite detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo and to call for an end to all unjust detentions, we will be creating a human chain between...
Updated: December 9, 2013
June 20, 2013, Baltimore – Last night, a federal district court denied a request for emergency relief in a lawsuit by the Center for Constitutional Rights after the U.S. government voluntarily...
October 15, 2014, New York – Today, attorneys in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) landmark class action stop-and-frisk lawsuit, Floyd v. City of New York , urged a three-judge panel...
November 26, 2015Today, fourteen American activists with the grassroots group Witness Against Torture are holding a vigil outside Guantánamo prison in a gesture of solidarity with the dozens of Muslim men who remain...
April 26, 2017 , New York, NY – Today, students at Fordham University filed a lawsuit against the school over its refusal to grant club status to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Represented...
September 26, 2017Barbara Blaine, founder and former president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, died on Sunday, September 24, 2017. She was only 61. We are devastated by the loss of our...
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