On Friday, October 21, 2016 the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council held an oversight hearing of the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani...
Updated: January 10, 2017
Racial Justice Has No Borders is a new, broad anti-war coalition that seeks to recenter the conversation about U.S. wars and militarization on the needs and leadership of those most impacted. This...
Updated: April 8, 2020
Sheriff channeled resources to use against Dakota Access Pipeline protests and endorsed company’s Louisiana project December 13, 2017, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, human rights attorneys filed a lawsuit...
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 25, 2017
May 23, 2016Last September, in Ashker v. Governor of California , California prisoners reached an historic settlement agreement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that is...
CCR is co-sponsoring rally on September 17, 2012 at 5pm by the Human Rights Coalition to abolish Solitary Confinement in Pennsylvania prisons. Multiple studies confirm that solitary confinement is...
Updated: September 14, 2012
April 21, 2017One day in February 2007, Rachel Meeropol stumbled upon a news story about a “secretive” and perhaps illegal prison unit “isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners,” which had sprung up like newly...
November 18, 2024, Hagåtña, Guam – Today, Guam-based international law firm Blue Ocean Law filed a submission to two UN independent human rights experts detailing numerous rights violations caused by...
He was targeted for exposing human rights abuses, while those responsible for these offenses have largely escaped accountability.
Since 9/11, the United States has moved to legalize many policies that sanction and protect state violence, including in prisons from Guantánamo to Bagram. Using the context of the so-called "War on...
Updated: June 24, 2015
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