January 5, 2011, New York and Phoenix – Attorneys representing lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) were in court late yesterday seeking...
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, we have taken on...
Updated: April 30, 2019
September 2007The CCR and other human rights lawyers filed a lawsuit against former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, accusing him of suppressing a 2003 riot which left over 60 people dead and hundreds...
May 15, 2009, New York, New York – In response to President Obama’s announcement of his plans to revive the military commissions at Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
Senior Staff Attorney Pam Spees will speak on CCR's current case filed on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) at Western New England University School of Law on April 9th. To learn more about...
Updated: March 27, 2013
CCR Legal Worker Abigail Downs will moderate a panel discussion between CCR partners and friends at the Left Forum on June 1st. Join us! No Separate Justice (NSJ) is a new post-9/11 domestic human...
Updated: May 23, 2014
For almost two decades through litigation, legislative advocacy, research, and social movement support, CCR has challenged and sought to reform abusive and discriminatory policing policies and...
Updated: July 12, 2016
Impacted people behind bars share harrowing stories of coronavirus outbreaks, unsanitary conditions August 19, 2020, Baton Rouge , LA – Last night , several civil rights and racial justice...
The Institute for Policy Studies, Haymarket Books, and the Center for Constitutional Rights present “Grasping at the Root: White Supremacy and the So-Called “War on Terror,” ...
Updated: October 27, 2021
In Fall 2013, Professor Steven Salaita accepted a tenured faculty position in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) after a rigorous, year-long...
Updated: January 30, 2015
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