September 2, 2015New limits on solitary confinement in California prisons are a long-delayed but welcome step in the evolution of a system that only recently subjected inmates to a degree of abuse that approached...
December 30, 2015The failure to indict a police officer for yet another killing of a young, Black person – this time a child, 12-year-old Tamir Rice – should outrage us and cause us to look more deeply at the...
On October 1, 2018, Katherine Gallagher , a CCR Senior Staff Attorney, will appear as a panelist at The Accountability of ‘Major Powers’ for Alleged Serious Violations of Human Rights and...
Updated: September 14, 2018
In recent months, Palestinians in the occupied territory have once again been feeling the devastating impact of a barrage of Israeli airstrikes, forced evictions, and mass arrests. Placing this...
Updated: July 6, 2021
July 9, 2014, New York – In response to news , reported today by Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept , that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on the Executive Director and co-...
February 18, 2014, New York – In response to recent revelations by Edward Snowden of the NSA’s global effort to surveil, intimidate and target WikiLeaks, its publisher Julian Assange, and...
Read the complete letter. CCR writes to ask you to prevent the execution of Troy Anthony Davis. Capital punishment, as it is applied in the United States, is expensive, racist, arbitrary, fallible...
Nkwalini The rural Zulu community of Nkwalini has been struggling against a neighboring farmer who is claiming that the land they have lived on for generations belongs to him. CCR met with Nkwalini...
Updated: January 14, 2015
Center for Constitutional Rights ● Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute With the CO-SPONSORSHIP OF the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE IN PRACTICE:...
Updated: September 21, 2011
February 29, 2024, New York – In advance of the launch of a mass mobilization by the Poor People’s Campaign on March 2, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The Center...
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