The Center for Constitutional Rights Southern Regional Office is a key part of an exciting new initiative drawing on the organization’s historical roots in the South, and reflecting the urgent need...
Updated: May 4, 2021
Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei alongside CCR friend Ramzi Kassem and CUNY law students for a discussion of Guantanamo Bay and the Evolution of Its Litigation 12 years later. Where:...
Updated: April 16, 2014
The Confession is one man’s riveting account of his journey from Birmingham, England, to his imprisonment and survival at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, and his journey back to his family. In the wake of...
Updated: January 27, 2017
September 13, 2021It was one of those unseasonably warm winter days that makes you fear for the future of the planet. Three lawyers were sitting at a conference table in the lower Manhattan offices of the Center for...
Yesterday, CCR Legal Director, Baher Azmy, issued a letter to the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement urging an end to the controversial Secure Communities...
New York, NY – Today, Black firefighters ask the court to rule in their favor in a lawsuit charging the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) with discriminatory hiring practices. The case, filed by the...
Pam Fujii joined the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in 2012 as a Grant Writer. Pam has a MA in Media Studies from The New School, where she studied documentary film and video and digital...
April 18, 2019...The U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) similarly found the court's decision appalling . "With its decision today, the International Criminal Court sends a dangerous message: that...
April 25, 2019... Just this week, Israel ordered Human Rights Watch’s investigator in Israel, Omar Shakir, to leave the country by May 1st. In response, the Center for Constitutional Rights ( CCR ) said, “The...
October 1, 2012, New York – Today, while a federal judge heard comments on the fairness of his most recent rulings in the landmark case on racial disparities in the New York City Fire...
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