September 17, 2010, New York: Today, the City of New York refused to select a non-discriminatory method for hiring entry-level firefighters, even though the court gave it the freedom to choose from...
MAKE A GIFT TO THE CAMPAIGN " In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been." - Ella Baker As we often discussed with...
Updated: December 17, 2018
Makes Strong Recommendations to U.S., Including Reparations Washington, D.C. & New York City, May 28, 2020 — Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane was detained and sent to...
We commemorate Black August in a time of collective grief, clarity, rage, and rebellion. Mighty waves of popular uprising against the ravages of white supremacy and anti-Black racism are flooding the...
Updated: July 31, 2020
We honor the 155th Anniversary of Juneteenth—the celebration of the end of chattel slavery in the U.S.—by envisioning a world more free than the one in which we currently live. We remember our elders...
Updated: June 13, 2020
A case brought by four former Guantanamo prisoners against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seeking damages for their arbitrary detention and torture.
Updated: July 11, 2011
August 1, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in anticipation of President Obama’s meeting with President Hadi of Yemen at...
Steven Salaita Steven Salaita is a Palestinian-American scholar and author of several books, including Israel’s Dead Soul , Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom , and Inter/...
Updated: September 14, 2018
October 31, 2008, New York – Muslim, Arab, and South Asian men were targeted solely based on race, country of origin, and religion in post-9/11 immigration sweeps with the knowledge of former...
November 15, 2012, New York, Paris and The Hague – Today, two leading human rights organizations submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, including expert...
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