Anser Mehmood is a plaintiff in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up in connection with...
Updated: September 8, 2021
The climate under President Trump is no ordinary political context, and requires no ordinary activism. Here we gather some resources to help targeted communities protect themselves, and to help us...
Updated: October 14, 2020
An examination of the radical overreach of proposed religious exemptions permitting discrimination on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexuality, and reproductive choices, as well as race,...
Updated: February 16, 2017
On December 6, 2018, CCR and Palestine Legal wrote Temple University to inform the college that threatening to investigate Professor Marc Lamont Hill for a speech at the United Nations violates the...
Updated: December 10, 2018
On April 22, 2021, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined 190 organizations in supporting the call of Palestinian families facing imminent forced eviction from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah in...
Updated: April 24, 2021
This Women’s History Month we reaffirm our duty to actively support those who daily fight to dismantle patriarchal violence : the interconnected systems of dominance that marginalize and limit the...
Updated: March 1, 2022
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to highlight the issues we work on and draw attention to the experiences of those most...
Updated: April 28, 2023
"It has become our destiny now to die without being guilty of any wrongdoing, knowing that even death, which could relieve us from this injustice and this suffering, is unreachable to us. Here we are...
Updated: October 26, 2023
“It is enough that we tried and didn’t remain silent. We might not have received justice yet in our just case today, but what is more important is that we made it to trial and spoke up so the world...
Updated: July 31, 2024
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we’ve developed a distinctive set of tools and strategies that mine the fine veins of principles that are justice-enabling, use litigation strategically to...
Updated: December 11, 2024
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