October 23, 2017A prisoner prohibited from speaking to his family for four months after uttering the words “As-Salaam-Alaikum.” Books that have to be destroyed after one prisoner reads them, lest he somehow use the...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will give the keynote address at the annual Western Regional National Black Law Students Association (WRNBLSA) Convention in Seattle on January 7. His keynote will...
Updated: January 6, 2017
CCR is proud to join the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program to mark a decade of the U.S.-led war in Iraq with speakers from the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) and Iraq...
Updated: June 19, 2013
A citizens' hearing to confront repression of human rights and civil liberties by the criminal justice system Saturday, July 16, 2011 3-6 PM Reception: 2:30 PM Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural...
Updated: July 15, 2011
Casas-Castrillon v. Lockyer is one of several cases in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has signed on as amicus curiae to support non-citizens seeking relief from immigration...
Updated: August 5, 2008
The Advocacy Program Manager (APM) will collaborate with CCR staff and our allies on dynamic advocacy campaigns and initiatives that advance CCR’s organizational mission and support CCR’s clients,...
Updated: October 10, 2016
May 17, 2021...The Trump-era policy responsible for the fines was ended by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to a release from the Center for Constitutional Rights, which...
March 31, 2021A series of attacks on cis/trans women and non-binary people, during this year’s Women’s History Month, have laid bare how prevalent and deadly misogyny and cisheteropatriarchy remain, particularly...
Charging former Paraguayan official Americo Peña-Irala with the wrongful death of Joelito Filártiga. The suit pioneered the application of a previously little-used 1789 federal statute, the Alien...
Updated: January 3, 2019
This is a repost of a press release by the US Human Rights Network of which the Center for Constitutional Rights is a member. Atlanta, May 29, 2009 - In response to the Federal Emergency Management...
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