November 21, 2023 – The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing of Holly Maguigan, a pathbreaking criminal defense lawyer, teacher, and scholar who changed public understanding of how the...
Join CCR and the ACLU of Southern California for a conversation and book signing with former CCR board member David Cole, Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown and author of Engines of...
Updated: May 24, 2016
On January 2, 2015, the State of Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and, on April 1, 2015, Palestine became the 123rd Member State of the ICC . Palestine...
Updated: January 13, 2025
Join the Arab Center Washington DC and a panel of experts to discuss efforts to suppress and criminalize the movement for Palestinian rights in the United States and the implications of those...
Updated: May 26, 2022
Join Scholars for Social Justice on Thursday, December 14, from 2 - 3:30 p.m. for a virtual conversation between scholar-activists and movement-builders. As we continue to stand with the movement for...
Updated: December 12, 2023
January 20, 2020Victory! Migrant Justice settles with ICE-colluding Vermont DMV [caption align="right"] [/caption] Human rights organization Migrant Justice and the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles have reached...
The Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit legal advocacy organization born out of the Civil Rights movement in 1966, has provided legal assistance to the people imprisoned in the Guantanamo...
Updated: March 5, 2009
CCR Staff Attorney Alexis Agathocleous will speak on a Legal Advocacy Clinic 101 workshop panel at the Sex & Justice Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan October 5th. The event will take place from...
Updated: October 1, 2012
For CCR supporters in the Charlottesville area, please join CCR Social Justice Institute Director Purvi Shah in a discussion of Movement Lawyering: The Role of Lawyers in Supporting Social Change ...
Updated: January 15, 2013
October 15, 2015This week, Yanar Mohammed, a leading women’s rights activist in Iraq and the founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) , testified before the United Nations Security Council about...
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