December 8, 2014, New York – In response to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s call today that Governor Andrew Cuomo grant him the power to investigate in instances of...
Please join us for a special evening with world-renowned Palestinian human rights defenders Raji Sourani and Shawan Jabarin , and Columbia University scholar Rashid Khalidi . Raji and Shawan...
Updated: April 13, 2016
January 28, 2021[caption align="right"] Speakers discuss Death by Incarceration at " Brick by Brick: A community forum on ending Death By Incarceration in Pennsylvania" [/caption] On January 26, Abolitionist Law...
Vince Warren will discuss the work that he and the Center for Constitutional Rights has been conducting to promote and advance human rights, speciafically pertaining to Guantanamo detainees, CCR’s...
Updated: January 17, 2008
June 21, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School released “ Window Dressing the Muslim Ban: Reports of waivers & mass...
CCR advocacy program manager Aliya Hussain will participate in an evening symposium, What Does it Mean to Make Art at Guantanamo? , as part of the ongoing exhibit Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantánamo...
Updated: September 26, 2017
Since its inception, the U.S. Constitution has implicitly and explicitly approved of the institution of slavery and the racial caste system it necessitated. That legacy has deeply influenced how our...
Updated: March 26, 2021
February 11, 2021In 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)...
While she did not halt the use of stop-and-frisk, Scheindlin appointed a federal court monitor to oversee a series of reforms. The city appealed Scheindlin’s ruling, saying it made officers...
Updated: November 1, 2013
False Information Created by Bureau of Prisons Continues to Affect Released Prisoners, Must Be Expunged W ashington, D.C., May 10, 2019 – Today, two men formerly imprisoned in federal Communications...
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