December 28, 2023...Diala Shamas is senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a human rights non-profit headquartered in New York City. She said that while donations to communities like Ma’...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), in conjunction with the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, responded this week to a request for comments from Immigration and...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) as we join City Council Members Jumaane Williams and Brad Lander, along with other elected officials for a press conference at City Hall in New...
Updated: July 29, 2013
March 4, 2016More than 100 people turned out last night for a CCR discussion titled “Challenging the rise of Islamophobia in America: An honest conversation.” And an honest as well as far-ranging conversation is...
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED From the leader of the “free world” to the leader of a worldwide faith, each person must be subject to the rule of law. Where national legal systems are...
Updated: November 23, 2011
April 2014In late February, U.S. District Judge William J. Martini found that the New York Police Department hadn’t violated the rights of the New Jersey-based plaintiffs in Hassan v. City of New York, a...
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Updated: March 24, 2015
May 5, 2015, New York – The following statement was issued today by the Center for Constitutional Rights: The crisis in Yemen is only deepening. Innocent Yemenis are caught between the brutal war...
October 17, 2016Ten years ago today, President George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA). It was enacted to authorize trials by military commission for the September 11 attacks, and...
CCR and Muslim Advocates File FOIA Lawsuit on Opaque Muslim Ban Waiver Process Washington, DC – Following the United States Supreme Court decision to uphold the Muslim Ban, Muslim Advocates (MA) and...
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