February 6, 2020...Nahal Zamani, spokesperson for the Communities United for Police Reform: We’re disappointed in Governor Cuomo’s failure to address reducing police violence and improving police accountability and...
Updated: December 5, 2014
February 2015"What happened at the Abu Ghraib prison during the early days of the Iraq war is no secret: The whole world has seen the appalling photos . Detainees under American control were raped, beaten,...
March 2015"On March 5, the New York–based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) urged a French Appeals Court to fully investigate claims by...
July 11, 2016A Tajik and a Yemeni national each held for roughly 14 years at Guantanamo Bay have been freed and sent to the Balkan nation of Serbia, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday. The Pentagon...
Please join CCR and allies across the country for a National Week of Resistance to renew our collective declaration of #NoMuslimBanEver. During this critical week, we must continue to raise our...
Updated: May 1, 2017
August 28, 2018... The “Protect the Protest” task force announced Tuesday targets what are known as strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP, which use legal action and the threat of financial risk...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney Chinyere Ezie as she leads a congressional briefing on the criminalization of queer and trans communities in collaboration...
Updated: June 8, 2019
November 21, 2019... “These asylum seekers have a deep commitment to following our laws in seeking protection, and we are relieved to see that their decision to follow our government’s instructions to wait in Mexico...
March 4, 2020..."Once again the courts have recognized there is tremendous danger facing asylum seekers along the entire southern border, and that the administration cannot unilaterally rewrite the laws," Lee...
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