December 11, 2015In an effort to quell public uproar after the release of a video showing the murder of Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager who was shot 16 times by a police officer in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel...
June 21, 2016, New York – Today, human rights and civil liberties groups filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request seeking documents relating to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent executive order...
Brooklyn, March 11, 2011 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court judge to reject the government’s efforts to halt a class action civil rights lawsuit on...
Israeli forces have killed more than 600 Palestinians waiting for food at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites
Smoke and flames rose from the sidewalk. A white man took pictures. Slowing down, my breath left me. The fire was a corpse. Leg bones sticking out of the flames. Port Au Prince police headquarters is...
Updated: January 29, 2010
November 18, 2024, Hagåtña, Guam – Today, Guam-based international law firm Blue Ocean Law filed a submission to two UN independent human rights experts detailing numerous rights violations caused by...
October 12, 2015Answer: When the child is Black and the shooter is a police officer. Welcome to America, where #BlackLivesMatter is a trending hashtag, but police impunity is a lethal reality of Black life. There’s...
Sheriff channeled resources to use against Dakota Access Pipeline protests and endorsed company’s Louisiana project December 13, 2017, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, human rights attorneys filed a lawsuit...
February 3, Boston – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged the First Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)...
August 11, 2010 , New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR ) issued the statement below in response to a summary of stop-and-frisk statistics for April, May, and June...
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