Jim Crow juries helped Louisiana reproduce a system of white domination following the Civil War
July 6, 2023... A new letter from a coalition of human rights groups (including the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Palestine Legal) calls on the school to...
In May 2013, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) undertook a fact-finding mission in California and Louisiana to evaluate the death penalty...
Updated: November 18, 2013
May 11, 2016Michael Ratner, a fearless civil liberties lawyer who successfully challenged the United States government’s detention of terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay without judicial review, died on...
August 3, 2016Recent weeks have seen courts around the country rejecting and raising concerns about voting laws that seek to keep people of color (especially Black people), low-income people, and other...
Civil Rights Groups Press Federal Court to Reinstate Lawsuit March 5, 2021, Baton Rouge, LA – Today, individuals incarcerated at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison urged a federal judge to reinstate a...
Urgent Intervention Needed to Protect Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons from COVID-19 Exposure April 14, 2020 For the attention of: The International Committee of the Red Cross...
Updated: April 16, 2020
April 21, 2017...In 2013, the CCR won a landmark ruling against the NYPD that found the its stop-and-frisk policies violated the 4th and 14th amendments rights of black and latino men, who were unfairly targeted...
This year marks the 90th anniversary of our longtime ally and current partner , the Highlander Research and Education Center, the storied school that’s helped nurture the Black freedom struggle and...
Updated: March 7, 2023
On the 16th episode of “The Activist Files,” Advocacy Director Nadia Ben-Youssef speaks to Staff Attorney Diala Shamas and client Ziad Alwan about our intervention into a case filed by Israeli...
Updated: July 11, 2019
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