May 22, 2013 , New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a complaint and motion for preliminary injunction asking a federal district court in Baltimore to order the...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren to speak about "The Case Against Shell" Come hear Vince Warren speak about our case against Shell for serious human rights violations in Nigeria. Learn...
Updated: April 6, 2009
On September 14, 2022, Anne White Hat, a Sicangu Lakota Water Protector, denounced the coordinated attack by oil and gas companies, lawmakers, and police on the Indigenous-led movement resisting...
Updated: September 14, 2022
On Tuesday, March 18, CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy and co-counsel from Patterson Belknap Webb and Tyler have an important oral argument in our case against private military contractor CACI for...
Updated: March 17, 2014
Federal lawsuit challenging government-ordered extrajudicial killings in Bolivia
Updated: September 28, 2023
September 26, 2016The United Nations Human Rights Council is underway in Geneva, with diplomats and experts covering such important topics as the rights of indigenous peoples, enforced disappearance, and the critical...
In 2007, the CCR filed a lawsuit against the City of Pittsburgh and various City Police officers alleging that the Pittsburgh police unconstitutionally used TASERS against peaceful demonstrators at...
Updated: November 17, 2009
November 22, 2017Two years ago, a settlement in our case, Ashker vs. Governor of California , ended the practice of indefinite solitary confinement in California, resulting in the transfer of over 1,600 men into...
January 25, 2017On January 18, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in CCR’s case, Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ) . Filed against Bush administration...
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