February 12, 2021TO HONOR BLACK HISTORY IS TO CELEBRATE BLACK FUTURES In our weekly call to action, we will highlight different partners and organizations who are doing movement work today to create a better tomorrow...
February 1 2, 2014 , New York - The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations-USA (CAIR-USA) sent members of the House of...
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Updated: March 25, 2008
November 30, 2020Black trans woman sues Georgia Department of Corrections [caption align="right"] Illustration courtesy of Micah Bazant [/caption] Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman represented by the Center...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights for two exciting events in Washington, DC on Thursday, November 20, 2008. CCR President Michael Ratner will discuss the critical issues of...
Updated: November 12, 2008
August 14, 2016President Barack Obama’s multi-agency Periodic Review Board (PRB) has approved an al Qaeda-linked Algerian prisoner for release from the U.S. military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,...
Rhonda Copelon was a force of nature and a CCR institution. As an early staff member and longtime Board member, Rhonda blazed the trail for countless people’s lawyers and social justice...
Updated: February 11, 2011
October 2013by Vincent Warren Originally published here . It is inhumane, fallible, expensive, and an ineffective crime deterrent. It is also no secret that the death penalty in the United States is carried out...
February 22, 2021WIN! Federal court again blocks Trump-era asylum transit ban A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had...
Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights "The Role of Accountability in Protecting Human Rights and National Security" WHEN: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. WHERE: Georgetown...
Updated: March 14, 2011
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