May 6, 2011, Washington, DC - Following a chorus of growing criticism over the President's Secure Communities (S-Comm) policy, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus delivered a letter to the White House...
June 16, 2011, Washington D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI), You.Me.We.,...
To commemorate Disability Pride Month, the Center for Constitutional Rights is honored to sponsor this important panel discussion and teach-in by our partners at Project LETS — a...
Updated: July 20, 2021
CCR is proud to join the New York Day of Remembrance Committee (NYC DOR) in a two-day program marking the 75th anniversary of President Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the...
Updated: February 14, 2017
May 2012On Friday, May 11, 2012, a federal appellate court ruled that private military contractors allegedly complicit in torture at Abu Ghraib aren’t immune from prosecution. In post 9/11 America,...
On January 9, 2007, Rachel Meeropol, a lawyer from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) will argue that the New York State Court of Appeals should stop the state government and the telephone...
June 15, 2023"I come before you as someone who was condemned to DBI at the age of 15 and served over 30 years in prison before I received a second chance"
After nearly 13 years of U.S. wars in the region, the Middle East continues to experience increasing violence and political instability. Yet the news media has placed the domestic costs of war in the...
Updated: March 30, 2016
The furor over campus protests hit the news cycle just as Palestinians uncovered another mass grave
February 2014by Lori Gruen February 10, 2014 Activism for animal rights should be protected as free speech, not equated with heinous crimes A few years ago, I moved to a rural area. During hunting season I am...
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