Democrats taking part in the House sit-in are pushing for votes to expand background checks for gun purchases and to curb the sale of weapons to people on government watchlists—a proposal strongly...
Updated: June 23, 2016
June 23, 2016Today, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison conditions...
June 23, 2016, Salt Lake City – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a brief in support of animal rights activists challenging Utah’s so-called “ag-gag” law, which punishes...
June 24, 2016This Sunday, June 26, is the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture . On this day, and every day, CCR recognizes the courage and resilience of our clients, allies, and movement...
CCR Communications Associate and former client Lauren Gazzola will be a featured speaker at the Animal Rights National Conference , an annual gathering of movement leaders and new activists coming...
Updated: July 7, 2016
June 27, 2016Tomorrow, June 28, 2016, marks seven years since the coup d’etat in Honduras – the day that former President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by the Honduran army and then flown out of the country from an...
June 28, 2016Today is the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in CCR’s case Rasul v. Bush , in which the Court held that men held in Guantánamo had a right to challenge the legality of their...
June 20, 2016“Where were you on March 20, 2003?,” Aaron Hughes , an Iraq War vet and artist, asks our group. We’re sitting on the floor around a Persian rug while Aaron brews a large pot of fragrant Alwazah tea...
June 27, 2016Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is striking deals with private prison companies to lock up a “guaranteed minimum” of mothers with their children in euphemistically-termed family detention...
Come work with other fierce social justice warriors! From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention at Guantánamo, the Center for...
Updated: October 18, 2016
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