August 4, 2010, New York – Today, a federal court judge found that the City of New York’s 2007 FDNY entrance exam (Exam 6019) unfairly discriminated against Black and Latino test-takers...
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today filed a lawsuit challenging the government's asserted authority to carry out “targeted...
October 6, 2010, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) joined Detention Watch Network (DWN) and other rights groups in a National Day of Action marking the one-year...
October 19, 2010, New York – Today, Federal District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis issued a scathing ruling in the ongoing case against the City of New York and the Fire Department for its...
October 26, 2010, New York, NY – The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional stops that disproportionately affects Black and Latino New Yorkers,...
February 4, 2011, Miami, FL and Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to an emergency petition filed on January 6, 2011 by six rights groups, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (...
August 6, 2008, Washington D.C. – Today, Djamel Ameziane filed the first ever petition by a person detained by the United States at Guantánamo Bay with the Inter-American Commission on...
February 24, 2011, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the statement below in response to a summary of stop-and-frisk statistics for the year 2010 made...
“The only things ICE is apparently willing to credit to me… are those which they wish to use to imply I was a rogue… I have been made a scapegoat for reasons of political...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is deeply dismayed at the Obama Administration’s claim that it can continue military attacks on Libya without Congressional approval as...
