April 11, 2014 – In response to Pope Francis’s statement today asking for “forgiveness for the damage [some priests] have done for having sexually abused children" and...
New York and Madrid, April 13, 2011 – After a two-year delay punctuated by efforts to undermine the Spanish judiciary’s independence, the Obama administration recently told a Spanish...
Michael Ratner devoted four decades of his life at the Center for Constitutional Rights as a staff attorney, legal director, and board president until his untimely death in 2016. We miss him...
Updated: June 2, 2021
May 23, New York – In response to President Obama’s speech this afternoon, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: The president’s stated reengagement...
July 14, 2011, Washington, D.C.– A group of international human rights organizations filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in the case of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum in...
September 8, 2011, New York – Plaintiffs challenging the discriminatory requirement that they must register as sex offenders because of a Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) conviction...
October 18, 2011 – Los Angeles, New York, Paris – Late last night, in a lawsuit brought against the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) by California-based agricultural labor...
December 23, 2020, New York – In response to Uganda’s detention of four human rights defenders, including attorney Nicholas Opiyo, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) for a historic march against stop and frisk abuses and on Father's Day, Sunday, June 17. CCR has been active in an unprecedented campaign...
Updated: June 16, 2012
Join CCR and Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) September 27 th to rally for NYPD Accountability and Community Safety!!! The September 27 th rally will kick-off an Advocacy Day to demonstrate...
Updated: September 11, 2012
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