August 19, 2010, New York – Today, a federal court judge took testimony from three witnesses put on by the City of New York in the federal civil rights lawsuit on the racially discriminatory...
CCR Communications Associate Lauren Gazzola will speak on two panels at the third Minding Animals Conference in New Delhi, India! The conference will be held January 13-20, 2015 hosted by the...
Updated: January 5, 2015
January 19, 2018Ahmer Abbasi came to the Unites States from Pakistan on a visitor visa in 1993. After he arrived, he applied for political asylum, and remained in the country after his visa was denied. Two weeks...
Edwin Santana is the Administrative Associate, Operations at the Center for Constitutional Rights. His work is closely aligned with the Director of Operations, Finance Director, and other members of...
February 3, 2010, New York, NY — Today, the National Day Laborer Organization Network (NDLON), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Immigration Justice Clinic of the Benjamin N...
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed a non-resident...
February 10, 2017Sanctuary cities. Everybody is talking about them. Less than two weeks ago, New York City Mayor de Blasio said “ we will go to court immediately ” if President Trump cuts federal funding because of...
March 14, 2016, Flint, MI – Civil rights attorneys from the Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice, National Lawyers Guild, Sanders Law Firm, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional...
Nkwalini The rural Zulu community of Nkwalini has been struggling against a neighboring farmer who is claiming that the land they have lived on for generations belongs to him. CCR met with Nkwalini...
Updated: January 14, 2015
Federal agents and investigators have a long history of targeting and surveilling activists, communities of color, and anyone fighting for the transformation of our society. As we continue to build...
Updated: September 10, 2020
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