Celebrates His Legacy In Inspiring Movements for Justice August 9, 2019, New York – Five years after the murder of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, the Center for...
Recently we passed another sad milestone in the history of the Guantánamo prison: as of Sunday, January 31st, President Obama has kept Guantánamo open for longer than President Bush did. The standard...
Civil rights groups mark 50th Anniversary of Freedom of Information Act by filing requests to expose government surveillance of activists of color July 5, 2016, New York – Color Of Change (COC) and...
June 20, 2012, New York – Today, in response to a raid this week by Ugandan police of a workshop on the rights of sexual minorities, and yesterday’s threats by Uganda’s Minister of...
Join Maynooth University and Northumbria University on Tuesday, July 9 , from 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Irish Standard Time / 4 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time for this in-person and virtual symposium . Nine...
In the six years since Ferguson, calls for accountability for the state-sanctioned murder of Black people have evolved to encompass demands to defund and abolish the prison-industrial complex (PIC)...
September 3, 2024, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights is now representing former Board Chair and Columbia Law Professor Katherine Franke, alongside cooperating counsel Kathleen Peratis,...
On March 13, 2015, CCR and co-counsel submitted 10 reports in Ashker v. Brown , our federal class action lawsuit on behalf of prisoners held in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at California’s Pelican...
On February 2, 2012, after NYPD officers unlawfully entered into his home without a warrant, probable cause, or any other legal justification, NYPD officer Richard Haste shot and killed 18-year-old...
In August 2016, Dinora Doe and her now-18-year old daughter arrived at the Otay Mesa border crossing in San Diego fleeing death threats, kidnapping, and rape committed by MS-13, a gang that has...
