January 8, 2013, New York – In response to today’s decision by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York finding that NYPD trespass stops...
February 8, 2013, New York - In response to John Brennan's admission to the CIA and NYPD's arrangement to spy on American Muslims, Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
August 29, 2013, New York – In response to the announcement today that the United States has transferred two men from the prison at Guantánamo Bay to Algeria, the Center for...
Alexis Agathocleous is a Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on issues of mass incarceration, criminal justice, LGBTQ discrimination, gender justice,...
NY’s Rockefeller Drug War: The Human and Fiscal Price We All Pay Time: 6:30 pm (doors open); 7:00 pm Program Cost: Free! Attendees will learn about the impact of the harsh, ineffective, and racially...
Updated: March 5, 2009
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) this Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. as we take a stand against the discriminatory hiring practices of the Fire Department of New York’s (FDNY)...
Updated: March 17, 2009
The Vera Institute of Justice and New York Law School present a panel discussion: “Keeping Communities Safe? The Case For and Against Secure Communities as Immigration Enforcement Policy...
Updated: October 24, 2011
Details below are for January 7th. Please click here for January 5th . Join peace activist and poet Dan Berrigan, CCR's Legal Director Baher Azmy, and other friends for an evening of poetry and song...
Updated: January 4, 2012
In July and August 2013, tens of thousands of Egyptians participated in large demonstrations to denounce the military's July 3 ouster of Mohamed Morsy, the country's first elected civilian president...
Updated: October 17, 2014
July 2014On July 8, 2013, 30,000 prisoners refused their meals, launching the largest mass prison hunger strike in U.S. history. One year later, Todd Ashker is marking off his twenty-fourth year in Pelican...
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