November 21, 2014, Olympia, WA – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel Davis Wright Tremaine LLP filed a brief at the request of the Washington Supreme Court urging the...
December 5, 2013, New York – Today, U.S.-based civil rights and human rights groups signed an open letter to President Obama urging the administration to make good on its stated commitment to...
November 12, 2015Steven Salaita will not be reinstated under the terms of an out of court settlement with the University of Illinois . The deal will pay Salaita $875,000 – about ten times the annual salary he would...
On January 22, 2019, CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani testified before the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council on a hearing on the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB)...
Updated: April 12, 2019
The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing on August 3rd 2009, of a core member the CCR family, Marilyn Clement. A lifelong social-justice activist who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr...
Updated: December 13, 2010
June 26, 2017, New York – In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to review Trump’s Muslim ban, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: While we are gratified that...
Join CCR at a performance of The Exonerated and a special panel discussion moderated by CCR Director of Education and Outreach Annette Warren Dickerson and featuring CCR Staff Attorney Alexis...
Updated: October 8, 2012
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) as we join City Council Members Jumaane Williams and Brad Lander, along with other elected officials for a press conference at City Hall in New...
Updated: July 29, 2013
Victims of the most serious human rights abuses often have no way to seek justice in their home countries. This may be because the government and courts at home are corrupt, or controlled by the same...
Updated: January 11, 2010
June 2, 2015Remember the horrific accounts of CIA torture exposed in the executive summary of the Senate Torture Report? It gets worse.
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