CCR senior staff attorney Darius Charney will testify alongside government officials, academics, law enforcement, advocates, and others as part of a public briefing on NYPD policies and practices...
Updated: March 17, 2017
Law likely unconstitutional, judge says, ruling on class action lawsuit brought by trans people in Georgia prisons September 4, 2025, Atlanta – A federal judge today preliminarily blocked a Georgia...
Come hear two of Palestine’s leading human rights defenders discuss conditions on the ground, the status of human rights violations, and the future facing Palestinians. IPS’s Middle East expert...
Updated: April 6, 2016
Victory! On December 10, 2020, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in our favor , upholding our clients' right to sue federal officials for damages under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA...
Updated: December 11, 2020
January 14, 2016, New York – Today, the Department of Defense announced the transfer of Guantánamo prisoner and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Fahd Ghazy to Oman. Mr. Ghazy was only 17...
Tariq Ba Odah was born in 1978 in the Shabwah district of Yemen where he lived until the age of one. He spent his adolescence and early adulthood in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, surrounded by his loving...
Updated: October 28, 2016
Join us at the 2018 CCR Celebrates Changemakers! The Changemakers awards honor advocates, lawyers and artists who stand up for social justice – sharing CCR’s commitment to challenge oppressive...
Updated: October 6, 2018
Order Would Allow Individuals and Corporations to Discriminate on Virtually Any Basis, Violating U.S. and International Law February 8, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (...
September 2013"As the country has been debating military intervention in Syria, the airwaves and blogosphere, conversations on the street and phone calls to Congress have rightly been filled with talk of the...
June 22, 2015The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) unsuccessfully attempted to censor a Columbia University workshop on Citizenship and Nationality in Israel/Palestine that took place this weekend. The day-...
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