CCR is proud to be a presenting partner of Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America. On Juneteenth, CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will provide a welcome address for Jeffery Robinson’s...
Updated: May 30, 2018
October 7, 2016For 50 years, CCR has been a part of virtually every movement for civil and human rights. We have fought to redistribute power to the oppressed, the under-resourced, the criminalized, and the...
This amicus brief argues that Japan is not immune from suit for its sexual enslavement of women and girls during World War II and presently. After a case in which the district court dismissed the...
Updated: October 9, 2007
In September 1988, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) won a significant victory for the Nicaraguan humanitarian aid campaign. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas did...
Updated: October 22, 2007
Lawsuit targets St. James Parish Council for Decades of Discriminatory Land Use Practices Oct 7, 2024, New Orleans – Today, before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, groups representing residents of...
On April 18, 2016, CCR and Palestine Legal sent a memorandum to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal opposing S.B. 327, an anti-boycott bill that would prohibit the state from contracting with individuals...
Updated: October 11, 2017
Coker v. Georgia is a lawsuit in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, together with a broad range of other women's legal organizations, on...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Jeanette Rankin Brigade v. Capitol Police arose when a group of protestors was arrested under a federal statute that prohibited demonstrating, walking, or standing in groups on the Capitol grounds...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Wallace v. Kern is a class action lawsuit filed by CCR and the National Lawyers Guild on behalf of seven indigent inmates awaiting trial in the Brooklyn House of Detention. These men had filed a...
Updated: October 9, 2007
September 6, 2022President Biden froze the funds after the Taliban takeover in August 2021.
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