October 12, 2015Answer: When the child is Black and the shooter is a police officer. Welcome to America, where #BlackLivesMatter is a trending hashtag, but police impunity is a lethal reality of Black life. There’s...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights to celebrate the publication of the new book by former Guantanamo detainee Murat Kurnaz. In October 2001, nineteen year old Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen...
Updated: March 31, 2008
This Black History Month, the Center for Constitutional Rights elevates the powerful history of agendas for Black liberation within the U.S. and globally, through art, dialogue, and uplifting our...
Updated: February 11, 2021
Human rights defenders are people like you – people who defend the rights of others. Join us to learn what human rights defenders do, who they are, and what special protections they have under...
Updated: May 13, 2014
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher will join other experts in a discussion co-organized by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Armanshahr/Open Asia , and the Research...
Updated: April 4, 2017
Fired FBI Director James Comey testified Thursday that President Trump tried to derail an investigation into National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s links to Russia, and accused Trump of lying...
Updated: June 9, 2017
On the sixth episode of The Activist Files, CCR Senior Legal Worker Leah Todd talks to attorneys Beth Stephens and Judith Chomsky, who both formerly worked at CCR and continue to collaborate as...
Updated: February 26, 2019
The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (“I&A”) produced several emails sent in early 2017 between their personnel concerning a document they referred to as the “Race Paper.” Each email attached a separate version of the document, and some emails contain some feedback from DHS personnel on the structure of the document, call for in-person meetings to discuss the paper, and expressly mention “drivers” and “indicators."
All versions of the “Race Paper” itself were produced to us, but in completely redacted form – nothing, not even the official title of the document, is visible. DHS claims the document is exempt from release to the public under certain statutes. Considering the documents are all fully black out, we are thus left to speculate, as to why DHS would prepare a document it refers to only as the “Race Paper” and then closely guard its contents, even to the point of concealing its actual title and a basic description.
December 22, 2020, New York — The Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal put out the following statement in response to the New York appellate division's decision today in Awad v...
February 23, 2023A victory for human rights and free speech
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