Filing Follows COVID-19 Outbreaks and Similar Demands for Release Nationwide April 29, 2020, Birmingham, AL – Late yesterday, Adelante Alabama Worker Center, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and...
This article originally published at the New York Times, Room for Debate (June 21, 2010). David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and the author, most recently, of “The...
Updated: June 23, 2010
August 21, 2008, New Yor k – Late yesterday afternoon, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued urgent precautionary measures to protect Djamel Ameziane , an Algerian citizen held...
July 6, 2023This Court’s obsession with “colorblindness” is a euphemistic mask for maintaining white supremacy
The Center for Constitutional Rights created the Ella Baker Summer Internship Program in 1987 to honor the legacy of Ella Baker, a hero of the civil rights movement, and to train the next generation...
Updated: September 5, 2025
2026 Ella Baker Summer Internship From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, Israel’s genocide of...
Updated: September 9, 2025
Challenges the NYPD’s suspicionless surveillance of Muslim Americans on the basis of their Muslim identity
Updated: March 18, 2022
September 25, 2019, New York – In response to news that human rights activist Patrick Naagbanton has been killed by a car in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
Successfully challenged Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducting raids of private homes and interrogating residents without judicial warrants or an articulable suspicion of danger.
Updated: August 18, 2015
October 16, 2012, New York and Crescent City, CA– On the one year anniversary of the end of their hunger strikes and the agreements struck with the California Department of Corrections and...
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