March 6, 2020...Baher Azmy, the legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the ruling halted Trump’s attacks on the asylum system. “It recognizes that courts can and should preserve this...
CCR and Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), joined by a number of national and New York-based organizations, sent a letter to New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo regarding the appointment of Raymond...
Updated: December 19, 2017
April 13, 2019... human rights advocates assailed the decision as a startling retreat from the court’s purpose of providing war-crimes victims with a means of seeking justice. Some said the language of the court’s...
This year, CCR is going all-in to support the call for a general strike on Monday, May 1 , in solidarity with immigrants and other communities under attack by the Trump administration . Will you join...
Updated: April 26, 2017
We’re finally over the mid-term hump, so The Activist Files checked in with organizers on the east and west coasts to find out how the results of the mid-terms will impact their organizing strategies...
Updated: February 26, 2019
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards Office of the Governor PO Box 94004 Baton Rouge, LA 70804 June 15, 2020 Re: Black Leaders Support RISE St. James' Demand for a Moratorium on Petrochemical Industry...
Updated: June 15, 2020
CCR’s Executive Director, Vincent Warren will be speaking at the UCLA School of Law on Wednesday, September 10 at 12:15 pm. Professor David Kaye, the Executive Director of UCLA’s new International...
Updated: September 2, 2008
In September of 1971, an uprising by the incarcerated men of Attica, a maximum-security prison located in western New York, ended in the bloodiest attack by state authorities in United States history...
Updated: August 26, 2021
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) this Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. as we take a stand against the discriminatory hiring practices of the Fire Department of New York’s (FDNY)...
Updated: March 17, 2009
April 9, 2018At a time when the current U.S. president is doing everything he can to project the image of the Ugly American abroad, a U.S. court took an unprecedented step to bolster the cause of justice and...
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