Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights and Public Justice at a special showing of "Battle in Seattle" at 7:45 p.m. on Thursday, September 25th at the Angelika Film Center ,...
Updated: September 19, 2008
Accountability for Racial, Religious Profiling Urgent in Face of Trump Presidency, Attorneys Say January 18, 2017, Washington, D.C. – Today, in the last case heard during the Obama administration,...
April 2, 2014, Chicago – Yesterday afternoon, the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Illinois Senate rejected Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 59, proposed by Senator Ira Silverstein (D-Chicago),...
CCR and nine other organizations sent a letter to Congress members on August 9, 2017, expressing opposition to the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, federal legislation that would amend existing law to ban...
Updated: December 14, 2018
Judge Orders University to Recognize Students for Justice in Palestine Club August 6, 2019, New York – Five Fordham University students have won a landmark legal victory against Fordham University,...
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon will participate in an expert panel discussion for the the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales's (BHRC) virtual...
Updated: May 24, 2023
June 28, 2017Today marks the eighth anniversary of the coup d’etat in Honduras. On June 28, 2009, former President Manuel Zelaya, who was democratically elected and later embarked on a platform of progressive...
January 11, 2012, Washington, DC – Today, on the tenth anniversary of the arrival of the first detained men at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Center for Constitutional...
June 2014By ERICA GOODE More than 200 inmates at Pelican Bay, California’s toughest prison, have spent over a decade locked in windowless 8-foot-by-12-foot cells for 22 hours or more a day. Dozens more have...
On October 2, 2006, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that it had filed the first new legal challenges to key provisions of the Military Commissions Act (MCA) passed by Congress...
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