This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post on May 12, 2010. May has seen an upsurge in local organizations exercising their human rights to housing. Most people recognize that...
March 5, 2007, Washington, DC and New York, NY - The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) joins co-counsel today in petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, asking it to review...
We honor Juneteenth—the celebration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States—by envisioning a world freer than the one in which we currently live. Each year since the June 19, 1865 reading...
January 29, 2009, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Washington College of Law filed the final brief in a civil...
We're urging SCOTUS to hold U.S. corporatoins liable for international violations On Wednesday, we joined 15 international human rights organizations and submitted a brief to the United States...
CCR urges the New York State Court of Appeals to hear a case filed by the Nonhuman Right Project, seeking the release of a captive chimpanzee under New York habeas corpus law.
November 30, 2021, New York — A trans woman’s legal battle against the New York City Department of Homeless Services has ended with major reforms to how transgender people experiencing homelessness...
Pipeline Protesters, Journalist, and Landowners Sue Over Louisiana Law M ay 22, 2019, Baton Rouge – Today, landowners, community members, environmental justice advocates, and a journalist filed a...
State law imperils health and well-being of hundreds, violates Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment August 8, 2025, Atlanta, Georgia – Trans people incarcerated in Georgia today filed...
By Alexis Agathocleous and Rachel Meeropol, senior attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights When Todd Ashker was transferred to the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at California's Pelican Bay...
