CCR advocacy program manager Nahal Zamani will speak on a plenary panel at Housing Not Handcuffs: National Forum on the Human Right to Housing.This forum will focus on increasing the reach of the...
Updated: May 31, 2017
April 24, 2019... the record shows that if these applicants can get enough public attention to their case, somehow, sometimes, the waiver gets mysteriously granted. That lays bare the dysfunctional implementation...
February 12, 2018Last week, CCR held our Board meeting in Jackson, Mississippi. CCR was founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, and Mississippi is the programmatic birthplace...
June 6, 2017A US federal court dismissed a suit on Monday against Scott Lively, the American ant-LGBT activist whose 2009 visit to Uganda helped catalyze a campaign to enact a sweeping new law criminalizing...
The Past and Future of reproductive Rights in New York 7pm Recent restrictions on abortion rights and access to contraception at the federal and state levels, including the Supreme Court’s recent...
Updated: January 18, 2008
February 5, 2020, New York – Today, Chinyere Ezie , a civil rights attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, announced she had reached an agreement with the luxury fashion house Prada over...
Questions are mounting about the first covert counterterrorism operation approved by President Donald Trump. Authorities say it was a success.
Updated: February 6, 2017
In 2007, the CCR filed a lawsuit against the City of Pittsburgh and various City Police officers alleging that the Pittsburgh police unconstitutionally used TASERS against peaceful demonstrators at...
Updated: November 17, 2009
November 2007The Paris prosecutors' office has dismissed a suit against Donald Rumsfeld accusing the former U.S. defense secretary of toture, human rights groups who brought the case said yesterday.
September 30, 2016... Arguing the case, first in federal court and then before the Supreme Court, was the late human rights lawyer and feminist Rhonda Copelon, who was then an attorney at the Center for Constitutional...
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