On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing meeting. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney provided oral testimony during the...
Updated: March 28, 2017
June 22, 2016Jonathan Hafetz , Associate Professor at Seton Hall Law School, Wells Dixon , Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Martha Rayner , Clinical Associate Professor of Law at...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will give a talk entitled “Challenging State Power in the 9/11 Era: Guantanamo, Profiling and Human Rights” on Tuesday, December 8 th , at 4:15 p.m. as part of the 2015-...
Updated: December 3, 2015
January 6, 2019... The latest move reversed a decision by a district court, which denied a public records request made by the Center for Constitutional Rights ( CCR ), a human rights law firm which has worked on...
January 2009President Obama's pledge to close the terror prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is being hailed as a major step toward restoring world opinion of the United States as a champion of human rights and...
Join CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Omar Shakir to discuss "The Palestine Exception to Free Speech" alongside Radhika Sainath, Thomas DeAngelis, and Susie Abdelghafar. Speakers will discuss ...
Updated: November 17, 2015
February 17, 2016A student group at Harvard Law School claimed this week that its stance on free speech and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict drove Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to withdraw generous annual...
December 11, 2020... Diala Shamas, a human rights attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represented the plaintiffs, shared a pair of videos on social media in which Tanvir describes how he was...
CCR is pleased to participate in the Students for Liberty New York City Regional Conference. CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will speak on their Civil Liberties Panel about NYPD Stop and...
Updated: October 26, 2012
April 2, 2021...Human rights and anti-war activists marked the 18th anniversary of the second of three American-led invasions of Iraq by renewing calls for the U.S.—this time the Biden administration—to pay...
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