Join CCR and pack the court on Thursday, May 1, 2014 for oral arguments in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , CCR’s class action civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-...
CCR proudly supports the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) in presenting their fourth ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism to Bryan Stevenson, the founder and Executive Director of the...
CCR and Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute invite you to join us for this important discussion. The program will focus on the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) as a tool for seeking accountability for...
On Monday and Tuesday, May 5-6th, the Vatican will be questioned by the United Nations Committee Against Torture about its record on child sexual violence. This is the second time this year the...
This Mothers Day, stand with the mothers of Anthony Baez, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell and many more to demand the U.S. Department of Justice fully investigate the killing of Ramarley Graham. What: DOJ,...
This year's Bertha Justice Conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer by profiling global and domestic models of "movement lawyering"--lawyers and organizers working...
Human rights defenders are people like you – people who defend the rights of others. Join us to learn what human rights defenders do, who they are, and what special protections they have under...
Join grassroots activists, human rights organizations, and advocates for the detained men in holding President Obama to his promise by taking action. Together, we say “Not another broken...
CCR Legal Worker Abigail Downs will moderate a panel discussion between CCR partners and friends at the Left Forum on June 1st. Join us! No Separate Justice (NSJ) is a new post-9/11 domestic human...
One hot August night in 2006, in New York’s Greenwich Village, a group of young African-American lesbian friends are violently and sexually threatened by an older man. They defend themselves...