On the occasion of the first session of the newly established UN Permanent Forum on the People of African Descent (UNPFPAD), the Center for Constitutional Rights traveled to Geneva to build...
Updated: February 28, 2023
This short briefing paper is presented to the UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the context of Law Enforcement (UN EMLER), to assist in the...
Updated: March 16, 2023
10 Years Ago this Week, We Went to Court to Expose the Racism of the NYPD
Updated: March 17, 2023
Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St. James brought this action against St. James Parish for its decades of environmental racism and discriminatory siting of industrial...
Updated: April 9, 2025
Plaintiffs sue parish council for pattern of racist land use practices that centralize petrochemical plants in Black neighborhoods, declare that new suit is only just the beginning March 21, 2023,...
Join Burns Chair Vince Warren and author Derecka Purnell on April 11th at 5:30 p.m. ET for a discussion of Purnell’s book, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of...
Updated: March 21, 2023
Home is Here NOLA, Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy, and Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention, three local immigrant rights organizations, are challenging subpoenas from Louisiana...
Updated: July 28, 2023
Demand for confidential info threatens attorney-client privilege, freedom of association, religious freedom, orgs say March 22, 2023, Lafayette, LA – Three local immigrant rights organizations are...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights at The People's Forum for a screening of the documentary Powerlands , followed by a conversation with the film’s director, Ivey-Camille...
Updated: April 19, 2023
A lawsuit filed by the Mississippi Department of Human Services seeking to recoup tens of millions of dollars of misappropriated welfare funds
Updated: March 30, 2023
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