April 2013"The process of dying is never easy or painless. Death by starvation is particularly grueling: the body cannibalizes fat and tissue, wasting to skin and bones, leading to dehydration,...
August 5, 2011, New York, NY —In reaction to a Resolution passed this week by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) urging the United States to close the detention facility at...
June 15, 2016Today in Albany a Civil Service Commission is meeting to consider a cadet program aimed at increasing racial and gender diversity in the New York City Fire Department. The proposed program grew out...
June 5, 2024, New York – In response to President Biden’s executive order to shut down the border, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following statement: Lagging in the polls,...
Today the Center for Constitutional Rights delegation in Haiti visited the Barbancourt II displacement camp in Port-Au-Prince. This camp is home to 310 families who lost their homes in the earthquake...
Updated: March 17, 2011
January 25, 2013 – In response to today’s ruling by the D.C. Circuit vacating the conviction of Guantánamo prisoner Ali al-Bahlul, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
Dorothee Benz is the Communications Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. She came to CCR with more than two decades experience as an editor, journalist, web manager, and communications...
OVERPOLICED AND UNDERPROTECTED: Women, Race, and Criminalization Engaging scholars from various disciplines, as well as practitioners and community activists, to interrogate how criminalization of...
Updated: January 10, 2012
CCR is proud to co-sponsor the inaugural celebration of Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution in New York City. The program will honor Fred Korematsu as a civil liberties role...
Updated: January 18, 2018
July 21, 2016CCR Board Member Rosemary Corbett shares some thoughts on funding social change. ... These developments point to an underlying strategy that we both believe is necessary to change the economic system...
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