Gay McDougall’s work has consistently challenged inequality. She has worked on the fault-lines of race, gender and economic exploitation in the American context and in countries around the world. Gay...
September 22, 2014 – Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council—a 47-member body tasked with monitoring, promoting and protecting human rights around the world—convened an...
Updated: September 22, 2014
Please join CCR and partners to stand with individuals and families facing deportation. Each day, dozens of New Yorkers facing deportation must check-in with ICE Officers at 26 Federal Plaza. When...
Updated: December 20, 2017
Camilo E. Mejia is a former staff sergeant with the Florida National Guard who, in 2004, after over eight years of military service and a five-month tour in ar-Ramadi in southern Iraq, became the...
Updated: March 8, 2010
For decades, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has supported the right to dissent – to engage in civil disobedience, to object to unlawful surveillance of activists, and to protest...
Updated: March 12, 2010
Israel and U.S. advance plan for U.S. Embassy in Israel on land illegally confiscated by Israel from Palestinians – several of whom are now U.S. citizens Groups say that under plan, U.S. bears...
Center for Constitutional Rights announced a major victory on August 30, 2005 for the families and friends of people incarcerated in New York State prisons. The federal trial court in Byrd v. Goord...
Overview: In August 2013, a federal judge found that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had engaged in a widespread practice of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory stops and frisks and...
Updated: June 11, 2019
A new report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal has documented hundreds of cases of Palestinian rights activists in the United States being harassed, disciplined, fired, sued...
Updated: October 7, 2015
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin In 1979, author James Baldwin wrote a 30-page letter outlining a biography of slain civil...
Updated: February 1, 2017
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