Civil and Human Rights groups join with Indigenous, Racial, Palestinian, and Environmental Justice activists to condemn ALEC for attacking people of color and the climate August 15, 2019 Today, as...
Updated: August 15, 2019
US officials deliberately sent Maher Arar to Syria under the likelihood that he would be tortured.
CCR joined a coalition letter addressed to President Obama, coordinated by Make the Road NY, Center for Popular Democracy and National Day Laborer Organizing Network, urges him to use his...
Updated: December 21, 2016
May 12, 2014, New York – In response to revelations in a Sunday New York Times article, “New York Police Recruit Muslims to Be Informers,” Muslim Advocates and the Center for...
Movement lawyering is focus of fellowship January 19, 2021, New York – Four Bertha Justice Fellows will be spending the next two years at the Center for Constitutional Rights getting first-hand...
CCR urges the New York State Court of Appeals to hear a case filed by the Nonhuman Right Project, seeking the release of a captive chimpanzee under New York habeas corpus law.
Updated: April 9, 2018
Please join CCR, Witness Against Torture, and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our montly vigil on October 5. Organizers, advocates, and attorneys will make connections...
Updated: October 2, 2015
January 1, 2018Thank you for funding the fight in 2018! We know that at the end of each year, your inbox is filled with calls from great organizations doing important work asking for your contribution to keep it...
November 2009A federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Monday that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because...
January 2009US lawyers battling against torture and other abuses at Guantánamo Bay are braced for George Bush issuing last-minute pardons to protect those in his administration most closely implicated...
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