The Center for Constitutional Rights Social Justice Institute in conjunction with The Bertha Foundation cordially invite you to the CCR Social Justice Conference 2012: Principles and Approaches to...
Updated: May 6, 2014
*En español abajo* April 6, 2021, Miami – Yesterday, a federal judge rejected an attempt by Bolivia’s former president, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, and former defense minister, José Carlos Sánchez...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is hiring four Bertha Justice Fellows, for 9/2022-9/2024. ** We are having a technical problem with our application portal. We are accepting applications until...
Updated: October 6, 2021
April 23, 2010, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International USA, and the Council on American Islamic Relations-NY released an open letter today expressing their...
Since its occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem following the 1967 war, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has destroyed more than 18,000 Palestinian homes in the Occupied...
Updated: January 24, 2011
July 30, 2015Eleven years ago, when I was arrested along with six other animal activists on domestic terrorism charges , I was already tired of looking for lawyers. The campaign I was working on, Stop Huntingdon...
November 25, 2015This piece was originally published by the Electronic Intifada . When the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dismissed my client , Professor Steven Salaita , from a tenured faculty position...
February 1, 2016Recently we passed another sad milestone in the history of the Guantánamo prison: as of Sunday, January 31st, President Obama has kept Guantánamo open for longer than President Bush did. The standard...
March 30, 2016Out of the nearly 800 people who have been imprisoned at Guantánamo over the last fourteen years, only 8 have been convicted of a crime—that’s just 1%. Yet, Republicans, eager to keep the prison open...
April 19, 2016, New York – Penny Pritzker, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has entered into a landmark class action settlement with African American and Latino plaintiffs whose...
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