The Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook explains to prisoners how they can exercise their Constitutional rights to protect themselves from physical abuse, poor conditions and other mistreatment, specifically...
Updated: March 1, 2011
The Center for Constitutional Rights has led the fight against indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo since the prison opened in January 2002. We’ve made hundreds of trips to the...
Updated: January 4, 2022
January 3, 2020, New York – In response to the Trump administration’s aggression in Iraq and Iran and the assassination of Iranian military Commander Qassim Soleimani, the Center for Constitutional...
Join CCR at a performance of The Exonerated and a special panel discussion moderated by CCR Director of Education and Outreach Annette Warren Dickerson and featuring CCR Staff Attorney Alexis...
Updated: October 8, 2012
A federal class action lawsuit originally filed in 1995 by an organization of deaf and hard of hearing New Yorkers. The Americans with Disabilities Act case asked the court to block a plan by the...
Updated: August 15, 2011
November 16, 2012, Washington, D.C.— Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), CODEPINK, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli...
CCR has submitted an amicus brief in Glik v. Cunniffe before the First Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of Berkeley Copwatch, Communities United against Police Brutality, Justice Committee,...
Updated: September 6, 2011
Law4BlackLives (L4BL) is launching an online training series to support our national community of lawyers and legal advocates in their efforts to serve the Movement for Black Lives and the broader...
Updated: March 10, 2016
The Center for Constitutional Rights and ten other amici filed a brief of amicus curiae in support of appellee Adree Edmo. The brief argues that the appellate court should uphold the lower court's...
Updated: September 5, 2019
Raji Sourani , founder and director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza and Shawan Jabarin, director of al-Haq in Ramallah, will provide timely perspectives from the...
Updated: April 6, 2016
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