“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 15, 2009, New York, New York – Today, Lakhdar Boumediene, an Algerian citizen who had been detained at Guantánamo Bay since his seizure in Bosnia in 2001, was released to France. Mr...
June 12, 2015On June 3, 19-year-old Lilian Yamileth was discovered slumped against the bathroom floor in a pool of her own blood at an immigrant detention center in Karnes County, Texas. She had tried to commit...
CCR joined 15 civil society organizations in sending a letter to members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations concerning the confirmation hearing of Mr. Rex Tillerson as the United States...
Updated: January 10, 2017
The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by...
Updated: July 21, 2016
August 18, 2016The stock prices of the two biggest private prison companies in the United States nosedived on Thursday after the Department of Justice vowed to stop housing inmates at their facilities. It’s a...
February 19, 2020... Aya Saed, a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights who focuses on systematic unlawful policies, said that it was no coincidence that these particular African nations were...
In the wake of the recent attempted attack on Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight 253, several elected officials have renewed their politicized claims that closing the prison at Guantánamo...
There is an intense national debate on police violence, brutality and racial justice. The nascent Black Lives Matter movement is thinking critically about how we can better promote respect and...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Chinyere Ezie is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she advocates for racial and gender justice; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI)...
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