Organizations that successfully challenged stop and frisk request reforms based on three years of community input June 8, 2018 , New York — Today, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions...
May 15, New York – Today, a court-appointed facilitator, Ariel Belen, issued a report on community-generated reforms to New York City Police Department (NYPD) stop-and-frisk and trespass arrest...
U.S. Weapons Used to Fire on Palestinian Protesters May 15, 2018, Gaza, Washington, D.C. and New York – Today, a coalition of Palestinian and U.S.-based human rights groups submitted a letter to U.S...
May 14, 2018, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: Israel’s state violence against Palestinians must end. Today Israel continued its campaign of...
Human Rights Watch official’s deportation order comes just over a week after CCR’s Executive Director and Board Chair were both detained and deported May 8, 2018, New York, NY – In response to the...
Victims May Sue Agents Who Listed them for Refusing to Inform May 2, 2018, New York – Today, a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit against 24 FBI agents alleging that they had placed or kept...
Trip planned to witness human rights situation in Israel and Palestine May 1, 2018, Tel Aviv and New York – Vincent Warren , executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and...
We, the members of the Bertha Justice Network, a global network of human rights and movement lawyering organizations working in pursuit of social justice, are observing with the greatest concern the...
New Jersey Muslims Reach Landmark Settlement Requiring NYPD to End Unlawful Spying Activities New York, NY – Today, a group of Muslim owned businesses, mosques, individuals, and student groups have...
Document Raises Questions About Escalating Government Surveillance and Criminalization of Black Activists March 19, 2018, New York, NY – Today, racial justice organizations filed a lawsuit against...