On September 13, 2011, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), on behalf of the Survivor’s Network for those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and five individual complainants, submitted a detailed...
Updated: October 18, 2018
by Leili Kashani, Center for Constitutional Rights This month marks five years since three men who were never charged with any crime died in US custody at Guantánamo under circumstances that...
Updated: June 20, 2011
CCR helped organize a sign-on letter protesting a recent increase in forced evictions from Haiti's camps for Internally Displaced Persons. The letter, signed by lawyers, law professors, and human...
Updated: August 24, 2011
by Jules Lobel, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights The Occupy Movement, which has already been hugely successful in thrusting issues of inequality and corporate power into the public...
Updated: December 6, 2011
July 2009A federal judge has determined that the Fire Department of New York City used racially discriminatory hiring practices that unlawfully prevented hundreds of qualified African American and Latino...
February 2014by Pardiss Kebriaei Since 9/11, the Department of Justice has prosecuted more than 500 terrorism cases, yet there remains scant public understanding of what these federal cases have actually looked...
Guests: Paul Washington , past president of the fraternal order of black firefighters, the Vulcan Society. Shayana Kadidal , managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. AMY GOODMAN:...
Updated: March 18, 2010
The Center for Constitutional Rights is hiring four Bertha Justice Fellows, for 9/2022-9/2024. ** We are having a technical problem with our application portal. We are accepting applications until...
Updated: October 6, 2021
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we believe in the transformative power of art and culture. Freedom Flicks, the Center for Constitutional Rights long-running film series, harnesses the power...
Updated: May 13, 2022
On the twelfth episode of The Activist Files, Senior Legal Worker Leah Todd talks with educator, organizer, and director of Project NIA Mariame Kaba and journalist, author, and organizer Victoria Law...
Updated: May 9, 2019
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