June 24, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued a case challenging Congress’s unconstitutional defunding of the Association of Community Organizations...
This report, released by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal in September 2015, documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights...
Updated: February 29, 2016
May 15, New York – Today, a court-appointed facilitator, Ariel Belen, issued a report on community-generated reforms to New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk and trespass arrest...
Ahmer Iqbal Abbasi currently lives in Pakistan with his wife and four children and works as a supervisor at a construction company. Ahmer is a plaintiff in Ziglar v. Abbasi, a lawsuit filed in 2002...
Updated: September 8, 2021
A police accountability action in honor of the mothers and family members of victims of NYPD killings. Hosted by families of people killed by the NYPD and the Justice Committee , "Mothers Cry...
Updated: May 6, 2013
April 24, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed the decision of a federal court judge to dismiss a lawsuit against high-level Bush administration officials for...
January 20, 2017On Wednesday, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol is arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court in CCR’s case, Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ) . Filed against Bush administration...
August 2, 2023...In a July 27 letter to Mayorkas, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Brennan Center for Justice, and the Center for Constitutional Rights...
July 13, 2015... This morning, like every day for the last eight-plus years, guards will come to Tariq’s cell, place him in handcuffs and leg irons, and bring him to medics. Perhaps as you read this, he will be...
CCR is excited to be a partner at Photoville 2015 —one of the largest annual photographic events in New York City. Photoville 2015 will present more than 60 photo exhibitions & outdoor...
Updated: September 11, 2015
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