January 5, 2017Many of us bid 2016 goodbye with a toast of “good riddance” – what with the deaths of cultural icons like David Bowie and Prince, the Pulse massacre, the horror of Aleppo, and of course the rise of...
December 9, 2008, New York – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued that high-level government officials must be held accountable for sending Canadian rendition victim Maher Arar to...
January 1, 2018Thank you for funding the fight in 2018! We know that at the end of each year, your inbox is filled with calls from great organizations doing important work asking for your contribution to keep it...
February 1, 2021In our weekly call to action, we will highlight different partners and organizations who are doing movement work today to create a better tomorrow. We invite you all to continue to educate yourselves...
May 2010With New York State promoting condoms as an essential tool to stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS, one would think carrying condoms wouldn’t be cause for arrest. One would be wrong. Under New York...
Michael Ratner’s activism and human rights work dated back to the 1960s. He was a student at Columbia Law School during the 1968...
Updated: May 12, 2016
Please join us for an evening of community as we celebrate our 50th year, reflect on 2016, and look to what is upcoming in 2017 and beyond. CCR Executive Director Vince Warren and Bertha Justice...
Updated: December 1, 2016
December 17, 2020On November 17, 2020, at 4:45 AM, five plain-clothes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) climbed the side of a building in south Brooklyn and attempted to enter a second floor...
The New York City Bar Committee on African Affairs cordially invites you to a panel discussion, LGBT Rights as Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments in Africa . This panel considers developments in...
Updated: April 20, 2012
A habeas corpus petition filed in the D.C. District Court on behalf of 17 innocent Uighur men
Updated: March 10, 2017
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