Meet the CCR staff. Our legal, advocacy and Bertha Justice Institute staff, housed in the Legal Department, and our communications staff, are responsible for CCR’s programmatic work. Our Development...
Reflections from Ferguson Join us for an evening with CCR’s Purvi Shah, Bertha Justice Institute Director, and Chauniqua Young, Bertha Fellow, recounting their experiences in Ferguson as part of a...
The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is an environmental justice organization that advocates for communities most impacted by the state’s oil refineries and chemical plants. It has fought construction of...
... Organizers of the “Justice Now: Close Guantánamo and End Torture” rally included Amnesty International USA, Witness Against Torture, Defending Rights & Dissent, Center for Constitutional...
... Organizers of the " Justice Now: Close Guantánamo and End Torture " rally included Amnesty International USA, Witness Against Torture, Defending Rights & Dissent, Center for Constitutional...
...The president of the local NAACP chapter, George Key, reached out to the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and attorney Randolph McLaughlin, with one question: Could they take the...
Elsa Maria Mota is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she specializes in advocating for immigrant rights and racial justice by challenging government misconduct...
CCR Bertha Fellow Omar Shakir will moderate a panel at a day-long conference about Palestine that aims to address the substance of the right to return, its grounding in international law, and its...
October 24, 2011, Surrey, BC and New York, NY – After successfully lodging a private torture prosecution with a British Columbia court against former U.S. president George W. Bush as he visited...
October 19, 2011, Surrey, BC —Tomorrow, four individuals who allege they were tortured during George W. Bush’s tenure as president of the United States will lodge a private prosecution in...