This year’s cohort will join the Legal, Communications, and Executive Departments June 5, 2019, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomed 16 summer interns to its offices this week...
Washington DC , June 30, 2011 Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security launched its advisory committee as part of the response to the growing controversy and resistance from states and law...
In decisions about what cases to take and in our assessment of the outcome of a case, CCR looks beyond a narrow legal lens and considers above all a case’s value to the social movements of which it...
Updated: May 27, 2015
Document Raises Questions About Escalating Government Surveillance and Criminalization of Black Activists March 19, 2018, New York, NY – Today, racial justice organizations filed a lawsuit against...
Activism Needed to Remedy Solitary Conditions in Prisons, Civil Rights Attorneys Say March 28, 2018, Oakland, CA – Today, a federal judge declined to order the California Department of Corrections...
A Superior Court Judge ruled against oil giant Unocal’s motion to apply Burmese and Bermuda law in the CCR case Doe v. Unocal. Unocal is accused of being complicit in human rights violations...
September 2014Iraq veterans joined by human rights lawyers filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Thursday with the U.S. Department of Defense and the State Department over its use of depleted uranium...
June 16, 2020This is the last in a four-part series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. It also appears as the latest episode of the Center for Constitutional Rights podcast, The Activist Files...
So-Called “Traffic Safety” Checkpoints and Tickets Target People of Color to Raise Revenue for City, Lawsuit Alleges June 28, 2018, Buffalo, NY – Today, civil rights groups filed a class action...
The Capital Campaign Associate will support the Director of Development, Executive Director, Board Chair, and consultants to track and help implement all aspects of the capital campaign: track all...
Updated: December 2, 2019
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