June 14, 2021The Black Freedom Struggle Continues This year, our 55th, and henceforth, the Center for Constitutional Rights will formally observe Juneteenth as a paid holiday for all staff. Long celebrated in...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), in conjunction with the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, responded this week to a request for comments from Immigration and...
On behalf of Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), the Center for Constitutional Rights and the NYU School of Law's Global Justice Clinic filed a FOIA request to the CIA, DOD, and other federal agencies...
Updated: July 13, 2022
Rights groups are seeking information about President Trump’s plan to establish a massive immigration detention center, by far the country’s largest, at Guantánamo. With immigrants arriving in...
Updated: July 29, 2025
June 16, 2015A scathing watchdog report by the Detention Watch Network and the Center for Constitutional Rights adds fuel to the growing criticism against exorbitant taxpayer funding for private prison...
January 21, 2021...Diala Shamas, a human rights attorney at the at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), stressed that the Muslim Ban was far from the only discriminatory immigration policy that needed to be...
American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh is a case filed against the U.S. Attorney General and the head of the INS that alleged they violated domestic and international laws when they denied asylum to...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) for a historic march against stop and frisk abuses and on Father's Day, Sunday, June 17. CCR has been active in an unprecedented campaign...
Updated: June 16, 2012
Georgetown University in Qatar will host the Reimagining Palestine conference September 20 - 22, 2024 . Some of the world’s leading academics and practitioners will gather for a thought-...
Updated: September 12, 2024
Please join CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy for a film screening and panel discussion about "Doctors of the Dark Side" at Brooklyn Law School. The acclaimed documentary “Doctors of the...
Updated: October 17, 2012
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