The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing on August 3rd 2009, of a core member the CCR family, Marilyn Clement. A lifelong social-justice activist who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr...
Updated: December 13, 2010
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain will participate on a panel at NATSECDEF 2018: Preserving Justice in National Security . Artwork as a Bellwether: Detainee Rights at Guantanamo (1:00 – 2:30...
Updated: August 21, 2018
CCR works hard to empower those who have been imprisoned, supporting movements begun by prisoners and foregrounding their stories and voices in our work. With the National Lawyers Guild , we provide...
Updated: September 26, 2017
On July 19, 2007, Governor Eliot Spitzer signed into law the Family Connections bill, which states that prison telephone service is a right and not a revenue generator. "Words cannot describe...
Alobahy v. Trump was a federal lawsuit on behalf of three Yemeni-Americans against President Trump, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security for the unlawful revocation of...
Updated: September 3, 2019
December 13, 2017, New York – In response to the court-appointed monitor in the Center for Constitutional Rights’ landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York filing his seventh status...
Through photographs, a multimedia display, and a virtual reality film, the stories of victims of private military and security companies will be the focal point of an exhibit organized by the UN...
Updated: September 8, 2016
November 20, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, the Center for...
Updated: November 16, 2021
September 22, 2023...But concerns remain about transparency and accountability features to ensure that federal funding is actually distributed to historically disinvested communities to update their aging and...
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