CCR is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Through the creative use of law as a positive force for social change, CCR combines cutting-edge litigation, advocacy and strategic communications in work on a broad range of civil and human rights issues, including but not limited to: abusive immigration practices, corporate human rights abuses, criminalizing dissent, discriminatory policing, drone killings, government surveillance, Guantanamo, LGBTQI persecution, mass incarceration, Muslim profiling, Palestinian solidarity, racial injustice, sexual and gender-based violence, torture, war crimes, and militarism.