The US Human Rights Network’s 2017 national conference will be a space for collective healing, reflection, and cooperative strategy. In 2017, a new federal administration rose to power using...
Updated: November 21, 2017
On Thursday, September 3rd at 12:00pm ET , the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will honor CCR Board member, human rights scholar, and activist Professor Gay McDougall . Ms...
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May 23, 2016...“There’s a lot of skepticism or distrust that the criminal justice system as it exists in our country is really capable of holding police officers who break the law accountable for their crimes,”...
March 27, 2020...Mitchell’s group, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a trespassing lawsuit against Bayou Bridge, working with the Aaslestads and another landowner, Theda...
August 17, 2015California Attorney General Kamala Harris is nothing if not ambitious. Not content with being the Golden State's top law enforcement officer--a position she has held since 2011, after serving seven...
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Updated: November 12, 2019
March 12, 2026Counterterrorism has been routinely exploited to perpetrate murder, extrajudicial killing, forcible transfer, and genocide.
“First Wednesday” 2/4 – Join us to talk about Policing in NYC and Beyond There is an intense national debate on police violence, brutality and racial justice. The nascent Black...
Updated: January 30, 2015
May 16, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Brennan Center for Justice and 24 other groups and individuals urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to
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