Updated: December 12, 2014
June 29, 2020Charges against Urooj Rahman and Colin Mattis should be dropped. [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last Monday, the Center for Constitutional Rights — along with a coalition of other civil rights...
On February 2, 2012, NYPD officers broke into Ramarley Graham's home without a warrant and killed him in front of his grandmother and 6 year-old brother. Ramarley was unarmed and had not committed a...
Updated: January 26, 2016
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llanes will join a panel organized by the Black Studies Program at City College of New York (CCNY). The panel will concentrate on the various ways that the Black...
Updated: February 7, 2017
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele is an organizer and educator based in central Brooklyn. He is the former National Strategies and Partnerships Director at The Movement for Black Lives. From 2011 to 2020, he...
On the 50th episode of “The Activist Files", legal worker Sadé Evans speaks with Helen D. Noel. Helen is an United States Air Force Chief Master Sergeant retiree, accomplished author, keynote speaker...
Updated: March 7, 2023
February 1, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) asked the United States Supreme Court to take up the case of Canadian citizen Maher Arar against U.S. officials...
June 2010Mahar Arar's quest to force the U.S. government to come clean about why he was shipped by the Bush administration to Syria and tortured has been bolstered by a letter from Foreign Minister Lawrence...
April 19, 2012, New York – Today, Occupy Wall Street protesters and civil and human rights attorneys filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request demanding that the NYPD disclose all...
June 18, 2013, Geneva – Tomorrow, representatives from SNAP , the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, and human rights NGO the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) will meet with...
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