March 11, 2021This year, we are celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Center for Constitutional Rights. We selected March 11 to launch this celebration of our legal and advocacy social justice work because it's...
March 9, 2018, Olympia, WA – Today, a Washington State court ended a seven-year litigation battle against former volunteer board members of the Olympia Food Co-op over their decision to boycott...
CCR and its partners – including Palestine Solidarity Legal Support, the National Lawyers Guild, Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus, and others – submitted a letter to over 140...
Updated: November 10, 2014
The below-signed organizations are deeply disturbed by and stand opposed to the indictment yesterday of Rasmea Yousef Odeh, a Palestinian-American community activist who has dedicated 10 years to the...
Updated: October 28, 2013
January 24, 2019, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of an ACLU lawsuit...
Rights Group: Settler Rentals Are Discriminatory, Settlements Are War Crimes March 18, 2019, Wilmington, Delaware – Today, Palestinian landowners and West Bank residents filed to intervene in a...
August 3, 2015In 1993, Craig Haney, a social psychologist, interviewed a group of inmates in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison, California’s toughest penal institution. He was studying the...
September 1, 2015California authorities have agreed to sharply limit the number of inmates held in isolation for long periods of time, a major development in the national debate about solitary confinement. The...
September 7, 2015Prison administrators and inmate advocates agreed last week on one facet of the debate on solitary confinement: Prisons need to be more careful about putting people in “the hole.” On Tuesday,...
September 1, 2017The events of Charlottesville on August 12, 2017, shocked many in the nation. We had not seen the brutality, racism, and anti-Semitism broadcast into our homes in such a graphic fashion. Nazis, Ku...
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