Transgender Woman’s lawsuit sought to hold Georgia prison officials liable for failing to protect her from sexual assault, denying care January 19, 2023, Macon, GA – In response to Ms. Diamond’s...
Background : From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been on...
Updated: April 25, 2017
Join CCR President Michael Ratner for a special event sponsored by the Lannan Foundation as part of their lecture series on political, economic, environmental and human rights issues. Michael will...
Updated: May 11, 2011
Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Office of Global Learning will present a conference on "The War on Terror and the Fate of Human Rights in the U.S." at the Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck, NJ...
Updated: April 21, 2008
August 15, 2019...Trump and his allies have dismissed any suggestion that his words contributed to the violence, arguing that mental illness is to blame or pointing to the weekend’s other shooting in Dayton, Ohio,...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is thrilled to co-sponsor Justice for Muslims Collective’s (JMC) Fifth Annual Social Justice Iftar on Thursday, May 6th at 7:00 p.m. EST. JMC has been...
Updated: April 20, 2021
On September 8, CCR board chair Katherine Franke testified on behalf of CCR in front of the New York City Council Committee on Contracts regarding Resolution No. 1058-A , which unfairly condemns the...
Updated: September 15, 2016
July 23, 2010 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to the Algerian government’s denial that it is detaining Abdul Aziz Naji: “...
April 4, 2011, New York and Washington – Today, the Supreme Court announced it will not hear three of the Guantánamo detainee cases it had been asked to review and delayed a decision on...
October 11, 2012, NEW YORK – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Baltasar Garzón, counsel to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, sent a letter to United States Attorney General...
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