March 7, 2024, New York – In response to the governor of New York’s announcement of a five-point “subway safety” plan, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The Center...
In July 2016, Color of Change (COC) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request seeking information from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
Updated: August 31, 2020
July 21, 2011, New York, Jerusalem – Forty-five prominent Palestinians from Jerusalem and Israel, including Christian and Muslim religious figures, politicians, businesspeople and civil society...
December 2, 2025, Philadelphia – A coalition of international legal and advocacy rights groups– Abolitionist Law Center, Avaaz Foundation, European Legal Support Center, SOMO, Center for...
In March 2025, federal and state officials announced a massive incentive package for a planned industrial park on the west bank of Ascension Parish, Louisiana. The plan would spell the end of the...
Updated: April 2, 2026
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will participate on a panel, Human Rights After Trump: Survival and Resistance , at this year’s International Law Weekend (ILW), presented by the American Branch of the...
Updated: September 5, 2017
CCR and Muslim Advocates filed this Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request on January 23, 2018 to obtain documents that would provide much-needed clarity on the process to obtain a waiver to the...
Updated: April 14, 2019
July 29, 2019Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a global campaign combating Israeli human rights abuses and violations of...
A FOIA request for information about a U.S. airstrike on a rural community in southwestern Yemen, in the al-Majalah region, on December 17, 2009.
Updated: April 17, 2012
United States v. Banks and Means is a 1974 case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) defended American Indian sovereignty at Wounded Knee and represented leaders in the American Indian...
Updated: October 9, 2007
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