July 22, 2009, New York, NY – Today, United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit charging the Fire Department of New York (FDNY...
CCR Legal Worker Ian Head will moderate a panel at the National Lawyers Guild Convention on October 12th in Pasadena California. New COINTELPRO: How the NLG is Responding to the Targeting of Muslim...
Updated: October 11, 2012
October 11, 2021 — In recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: From our offices on occupied Lenape territory in lower Manhattan, we...
UNRWA USA National Committee Inc. (UNRWA USA) is a U.S. nonprofit that supports the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Following the attacks of...
Updated: May 5, 2026
Representing David Hicks, an Australian citizen who was detained for five and a half years at Guantánamo, where he was tortured.
Updated: August 19, 2015
Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian activist and graduate student at Columbia University who was active with Columbia's Gaza Solidarity Encampment, serving as negotiator with the university and speaking...
Updated: May 30, 2026
October 16, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
February 1, 2016Last month, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent conducted a fact-finding mission to the United States to document human rights violations against people of African descent in...
August 24, 2020Debunking the myth of no COVID-19 cases in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Tuesday, several civil rights and racial justice organizations pushed back on efforts...
In 2017, the partial owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline, Energy Transfer Equity, filed a bizarre and far-fetched lawsuit naming various environmental organizations and "Earth First!" as defendants...
Updated: October 12, 2020
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