The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to highlight the issues we work on and draw attention to the experiences of those most...
Updated: February 18, 2025
February 14, 2017 The Center for Constitutional Rights (“CCR”) urges New York state legislators to support proposed legislation ( A.5617 ). This bill is an important step to codify and strengthen the...
Updated: February 16, 2017
On November 22, 2004, a group of protesters and bystanders wrongfully arrested during the Republican National Convention last August filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the almost 2,000 who...
November 16, 2020Mass deportations are reckless, inhumane--and unlawful [caption align="right"] [/caption] For the second time in under a month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of...
Submits Notice of Hearing Request in U.S. Court to Address Serious Concerns Regarding Physical and Mental Health December 6, 2018, The Hague/New York – Today, the legal representative for one of the...
March 28, 2023They Seek a Moratorium on Hazardous Petrochemical Plants
October 1, 2018Ramapough Lenape Nation Sues NJ Town, Polo Club for Racial and Religious Discrimination [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Friday, September 21, the Ramapough Lenape Nation Tribe, represented by...
June 18, 2020, New York – In response to the Supreme Court’s DACA decision today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The Supreme Court ruled today that the Trump...
In the 26 th episode of “The Activist Files,” Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz and Bertha Justice Fellow Lupe Aguirre are in conversation about how their work fighting abusive immigration...
Updated: May 29, 2020
Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, in WHO WE ARE , criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in...
Updated: January 11, 2022
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