Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney Astha Sharma Pokharel will speak at a virtual event organized by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). The event will be streamed on AMP’s...
Updated: January 18, 2024
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a complaint on behalf of the International Action Center and the Troops Out Now Coalition on Wednesday March 16 challenging the City’s policy of...
The Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), in partnership with US Human Rights Network (USHRN), is proud to invite you to a free screening of the July Freedom Flicks...
Updated: July 14, 2015
On the 16th episode of “The Activist Files,” Advocacy Director Nadia Ben-Youssef speaks to Staff Attorney Diala Shamas and client Ziad Alwan about our intervention into a case filed by Israeli...
Updated: July 11, 2019
September 6, 2017, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Defending Rights & Dissent released a comprehensive report on state ag-gag laws, which prohibit...
April 25, 2022Money belongs to the people of Afghanistan, groups say in legal brief
May 18, 2020This is the third in a series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. In this age of the novel coronavirus, millions of people in the United States—those who are not considered essential...
Jalil Muntaqim, Jailed 48 Years, Has 12 th Parole Hearing This Year May 21, 2019, New York – Today, a group of prominent academics, lawyers, and activists published an open letter calling for the...
Ashley Diamond Home at Last August 9, 2022 – Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman who has twice sued the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) for refusing to protect her from sexual assault...
New York, NY – Today, Black firefighters ask the court to rule in their favor in a lawsuit charging the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) with discriminatory hiring practices. The case, filed by the...
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