Legal Glossary Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) , also known as Alien Tort Statute (ATS) – The Alien Tort Claims Act is a federal statute from 1789 that allows foreign victims of international...
Updated: February 19, 2010
July 10, 2020 Via electronic submission Committee on Public Safety California State Assembly Re: SB 1064 - SUPPORT Dear Committee Members, We write to share the Center for Constitutional Rights’...
Updated: August 4, 2020
Thursday, November 9, 2017, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, a broad base of Louisiana advocacy groups opposed to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, represented by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights...
Nueva York, Abril 4 del 2013 – Veintidós personas Latinas que fueron víctimas de redadas ilegales efectuadas sin autorización judicial por agentes de inmigración,...
On May 18, 2018, CCR joined Palestine Legal, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and the National Lawyers Guild in sending a letter to members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor...
Updated: June 14, 2018
April 16, 2018CCR has launched a podcast! [caption align="right"] [/caption] We are excited to announce the launch of the CCR podcast, The Activist Files ! The monthly series will feature the stories of people of...
Rooted will ground participants in an understanding of the systemic tactics of dehumanization and criminalization that the U.S. empire deploys against oppressed communities.
Updated: February 12, 2026
January 29, 2010, Brussels and New York – At the start of the E.U.-U.S. Consultations on Human Rights, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Center for Constitutional...
Site Provides Historical Context and Resources Around Reckoning With 20 Years of Injustice September 2, 2021, New York – Ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
August 6, 2018CCR granted Special Consultative Status to Economic and Social Council of the United Nations The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was granted official special consultative status last week with...
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