Brooklyn, March 11, 2011 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court judge to reject the government’s efforts to halt a class action civil rights lawsuit on...
Discrimination and free speech were strong buzzwords at a Massachusetts State House hearing Tuesday, where lawyers, legislators, faith leaders, and organizers testified both for and against a...
Afrika Owes is an Administrative Associate for the Legal and Advocacy departments at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She supports the department as a whole, as well as the Legal Director and...
Vince Warren , CCR's Executive Director, and Nancy Cantor, Chancellor of Rutgers Law School - Newark, will discuss the importance of Rutgers’ 50 year-old Minority Student Program (MSP) to the...
Haiti: Law in the Time of Cholera UN Peacekeeping, Cholera and Human Rights A Discussion – Monday, April 9 th , 1pm – 2.45pm (A light lunch will be served / Please RSVP to rsvp@...
A group of 173 human rights activists, each wearing an orange jumpsuit and a black hood and representing the remaining 173 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rallied in front of the White House on...
The attorneys representing detainees at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, blasted President Trump’s suggestion to send the suspect in the New York City terror attack there as “deluded” and...
Celine Zhu is a Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on issues of sexual and gender-based violence, LGBTQI+ persecution, discriminatory policing, environmental...
In the aftermath of the June 28, 2009 coup d’etat in Honduras, the Organization of American States (OAS) designated then-Costa Rican President Oscar Arias as mediator between the coup regime...
