May 2010A federal judge in Brooklyn has appointed former longtime New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau as a special master to help force the city to improve the hiring the black firefighters.
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Updated: March 10, 2008
January 3, 2013, New York – In response to President Obama’s signing of the controversial 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
Please join CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy in Washington D.C. for a Civil Rights panel addressing the shared realities Arab Americans face with African Americans and about how shared experiences...
Updated: June 12, 2013
This 90-minute panel discussion will feature voices from the academic, media, and policy worlds expressing views on the international dimensions of human rights issues currently playing out in the...
Updated: October 17, 2014
CCR won a $66 million victory in its civil suit against Indonesia's former Vice Chief of Staff, accusing him of crimes against humanity and other human rights violations. CCR scored a major victory...
On September 14, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a statement before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Democratic Policy Committee on the Effects of Solitary...
Updated: September 20, 2012
June 11, 2015For years, Guantanamo Bay prisoners’ memories of their time in CIA custody have been considered classified state secrets. Abu Zubaydah's lawyers can’t talk publicly about how he lost his left eye...
June 22, 2015In a bid to open criminal proceedings against Israel for its 50-day-long attack on Gaza that left thousands dead last summer, the Palestinian Authority is expected to submit its first file to the...
September 23, 2015Iraqis tortured and abused at the Abu Ghraib prison appealed the dismissal of their claims against contractors from CACI International, Inc. Over the past seven years, the civil tort case has wound...
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