August 9, 2022They will discuss the struggle of Black communities against toxic industry, environmental racism, and desecration of the burial grounds of enslaved people
March 5, 2024A national day of action kicks off a campaign to center the material needs of poor people
location: Remote eligible with travel as needed The Associate Director of Political Education and Research (ADPER) will identify, develop, manage, and implement educational and human rights research...
Updated: April 11, 2025
Emanuel “Toto” Constant, the former leader of the Haitian paramilitary death squad known as FRAPH (the Revolutionary Front for Haitian Advancement and Progress), pled guilty on February 8, 2007 to...
WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ - The U.S. Supreme Court sent a terrible message with its refusal today to hear the case of 250 civilians allegedly tortured and seriously harmed by corporate...
May 15, 2009, New York, New York – In response to President Obama’s announcement of his plans to revive the military commissions at Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
The Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter to Barnard College President Debora Spar on March 13, 2014 urging her to reconsider her decision to remove a Columbia Students for Justice in...
Updated: March 26, 2014
September 1, 2015The nationwide movement to end solitary confinement is growing – even attracting the attention of a Supreme Court justice – and today it took a significant step forward. CCR and the State of...
December 9, 2016Today marks the two-year anniversary of the release of the Senate Torture Report Executive Summary detailing some of the barbarity and brutality of the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation and detention...
President-Elect Donald Trump’s blatantly Islamophobic campaign has stoked fears of an era of a particularly egregious of religious discrimination and abuse of civil and human rights, but the...
Updated: January 17, 2017
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