May 31, 2020, New York – In response to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s explicit defense of the NYPD’s use of violent and unjustified force against protestors, as well as the history of impunity for brutality...
May 31, 2020, New York – In response to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s explicit defense of the NYPD’s use of violent and unjustified force against protesters, as well as the history of impunity for brutality...
March 18, 2011, New York and Geneva – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a report on the formal adoption of the United States’ Report at the United Nations Human...
July 1, 2020... Civil liberties organizations had threatened to sue if the curfew was extended beyond Sunday. “Eliminating the curfew was a necessary step in stopping the cycle of police violence and silencing...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will present at the 19th Annual NACOLE conference in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 24th. Since 1995, NACOLE has been bringing together individuals and...
Updated: September 18, 2013
November 8, 2015The Pentagon is expected this week to unveil a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and move terrorists to U.S. soil, suggesting prisons such as the Supermax in Colorado that houses...
April 23, 2012, Vancouver and New York —On Friday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) filed a report with the UN Committee...
June 4, 2020, New York – Today, the attorneys behind two class action lawsuits that challenged the New York City Police Department (NYPD)’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as...
CCR works hard to empower those who have been imprisoned, supporting movements begun by prisoners and foregrounding their stories and voices in our work. With the National Lawyers Guild , we provide...
Updated: September 26, 2017
October 9, 2018...Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled in 2013 that the law violated the Fourth Amendment rights of citizens , and that the practice was “racially discriminatory” because of the disproportionate numbers of...
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