Join CCR for our monthly First Wednesday event! CCR and co-counsel represent hundreds of prisoners in California’s notorious Pelican Bay “Special Housing Unit” who have been held in...
Updated: October 31, 2014
July 10, 2020 Via electronic submission Committee on Public Safety California State Assembly Re: SB 1064 - SUPPORT Dear Committee Members, We write to share the Center for Constitutional Rights’...
Updated: August 4, 2020
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to bring attention to our issues and uplift the experiences of those most impacted by the...
Updated: November 3, 2023
Same Saudi Agency Involved in Cover-Up Denied Torture of Ahmed Abu Ali October 3, 2019, Alexandria, VA – Last night, the Center for Constitutional Rights asked a federal court to vacate the...
Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow, Lupe Aguirre , will testify before the New York Senate Standing Committee on Codes Public Hearing on Civil Rights Law 50-a. 50-a is a...
Updated: October 17, 2019
March 27, 2014 - Today, the UN Human Rights Committee issued highly critical concluding observations on the United States’ compliance with international human rights requirements. CCR had...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a first-of-its-kind hearing, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorney Emi MacLean and other Guantanamo attorneys today told Representatives on the House Foreign Affairs...
On May 21, 2007, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the City of New York, charging it with discriminatory hiring practices against black and Latino potential firefighters. The lawsuit...
November 27, 2007, New York – Today, the City of New York released preliminary data from its January 2007 firefighter written exam and claimed that the percentage of Black and Latino firefighters who...
The federal prosecution, on "animal enterprise terrorism" charges, of 6 animal rights activists and their non-profit organization, for publishing a website that advocated and reported on protest...
Updated: August 3, 2016
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