This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
From its roots representing civil rights activists in the South, to its recent challenges to the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program and indefinite detention and torture at...
ICC affirms Palstinian statehood & self-determination In response to a decision issued by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court last week, recognizing that the territory of...
Federal Court Monitor Details Ongoing Constitutional Violations and Failure of Supervision; Center for Constitutional Rights Responds October 28, 2020, New York – In response to the release, today,...
...Samah Sisay, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights and spokesperson for Communities United for Police Reform, said stops are trending toward an all-time high since 2015. She said a...
On September 18, 2003, the City of New York agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that charged the New York Police Department with engaging in illegal racial profiling practices in stop and...
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ story begins in the Mississippi Delta working together with Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the most powerful figures in the Black Freedom Struggle. Throughout her life...
February 18, 2014, New York – In response to recent revelations by Edward Snowden of the NSA’s global effort to surveil, intimidate and target WikiLeaks, its publisher Julian Assange, and...
CCR is providing legal support and criminal defense to the protesters who engaged in civil disobedience (CD) as part of the New Sanctuary Movement’s (NSM) on-going campaign around immigrant...
