July 5, 2016Against a backdrop of surveillance of the Black Lives Matters movement ahead of the Republican National Convention , two civil rights organizations are aiming to further expose government tracking of...
CCR staff attorney Omar Farah will discuss discriminatory surveillance, policing, and detention of Arabs and Muslims at a series that is part of CCR board member and Columbia Law professor Katherine...
Updated: March 17, 2017
Elizabeth A. Castelli is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Religion at Barnard College. She is author and editor of several books, and the translator of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s script for the never-...
Meriam Haider is the Receptionist, Administrative Assistant at the Center for Constitutional Rights, handling front-office reception and clerical duties. She works with the Operations team to ensure...
August 12, 2022...Ahead of the first regular review of the US record since 2014, rights advocates insisted the US government had never adequately addressed violations against black people during slavery and...
Join Dissenters on Wednesday, February 19, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. for a webinar, Roots & Resistance: Black Organizing Against Empire , to learn about the long and rich history of anti-imperalist...
Updated: February 18, 2025
February 2012The NYPD conducted 684,330 stops in 2011, the highest number on record since the City Council started collecting stop-and-frisk data in 2002. Darius Charney of the Center for Constitutional Rights,...
December 30, 2013, New York – In response to the announcement that Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has selected former United States Attorney Zachary Carter as incoming Corporation Counsel for the...
June 12, 2015So what happens when the FBI is given full discretion to use one of the many ever-expanding government watchlists to coerce law-abiding people into spying in their communities? They use it, of course...
August 4, 2016On Monday, in the same city in which Alton Sterling, a 37 year-old Black man, was killed by the police and three police officers were killed by a civilian, the “Blue Lives Matter” law that...
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