December 10, 2007, New York, NY - Attorney, author and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) President Michael Ratner is the recipient of the 2007 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. One...
In May 1981, Crockett v. Reagan was filed on behalf of 29 members of Congress who challenged U.S. military intervention in El Salvador. The case claimed that President Ronald Reagan violated the War...
Updated: October 9, 2007
D.C. Appellate Court Asked to Reverse Lower Court Ruling Refusing to Dismiss Lawsuit Targeting Advocacy as a SLAPP July 7, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Today, academics who were sued over the American...
Amidst escalating attacks on the LGBTQI+ community worldwide, we are witnessing alarming developments in Uganda, where on March 21, 2023, the Parliament passed a sweeping Anti-Homosexuality Act with...
Updated: April 5, 2023
Advocates for Descendants of Enslaved People are Trying to Prevent Construction of Massive Grain Terminal April 28, 2022, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – Today, a district court judge...
May 15, 2024, New York – In solidarity with Palestinians on Nakba Day, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Today marks Nakba Day, when, 76 years ago, Israel’s ethnic...
Join The Center for Constitutional Rights for Rabbis for Human Rights (North America) third conference on Judaism and Human Rights: HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER FIRE : A JEWISH CALL TO ACTION , which will be...
Updated: November 5, 2010
August 3, 2015, New York – In response to the ruling by a federal judge today striking down Idaho’s “ag-gag” law, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: We applaud...
September 2, 2015In August, I was down at Guantánamo to represent Mohammed Kamin, an Afghan detainee who has been held at the prison for almost eleven years. (I left a six-month-old baby boy at home to travel to...
August 30, 2013 – In response to signals from the Obama administration that it will pursue U.S. military intervention in Syria in the wake of attacks last week, the Center for Constitutional...
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