May 19, 2023…After a sustained legal campaign driven by the Center for Constitutional Rights, in 2012 Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled the department’s widespread stop and frisk practice to be...
April 24, 2020...“I lost my highest paying job,” she said. “I lost my car, both that I needed to take care of my children.” The lawsuit also alleges the fines and fees collected from the traffic tickets act as...
Why are guns for hire in Iraq? The U.S. government has increasingly been outsourcing functions previously carried out by government employees or members of the military to for-profit corporations...
Updated: September 8, 2021
April 16, 2018CCR has launched a podcast! [caption align="right"] [/caption] We are excited to announce the launch of the CCR podcast, The Activist Files ! The monthly series will feature the stories of people of...
Makes Strong Recommendations to U.S., Including Reparations Washington, D.C. & New York City, May 28, 2020 — Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane was detained and sent to...
August 16, 2018...In May 2018, Katherine Franke, a Columbia University professor, co-heading a delegation of American civil rights activists, was detained at the Ben Gurion airport upon her arrival and denied entry...
September 4, 2020...The probe has been welcomed by human rights activists and advocacy groups such as the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which denounced the sanctions as "an unprecedented...
Highlander Center says Tennessee Preservation Trust is unfit steward of legacy August 5, 2022, New Market, TN – A Tennessee organization with a storied history of training civil rights and social...
August 3, 2020Police unions are trying to block police transparency campaign #Repeal50a. We're fighting back. [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, with the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff LLP,...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. CCR is committed...
Updated: May 29, 2019
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