Inside CCR
- This morning CCR scored a major victory in our long running effort to hold private military contractors responsible for their role in the torture and war crimes at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. A U.S.… Read more >>
- It is a bedrock principle of democratic government that the state cannot be judge, jury and executioner all at once. Yet the CIA and Pentagon maintain lists of suspected terrorists to be targeted for killing… Read more >>
- The Pope’s visit to Mexico comes on the heels of recent revelations about the Vatican's decades-long knowledge and cover-up of rape and sexual violence by the Mexican priest Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, one of its… Read more >>
- An estimated 20,000 U.S. prisoners are held in solitary confinement, an internationally-recognized form of torture. CCR Associate Legal Director Bill Quigley calls for us to rally to free them from their isolation, just as activists… Read more >>
- The Center for Constitutional Rights has put together this fact sheet to address questions concerned activists might have regarding the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012.
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- In 2011, the US Department of Labor reported at least 10 million people worked and were still below the unrealistic official US poverty line, an increase of 1.5 million more than the last time they… Read more >>
- Today marks ten years since the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay. As fate would have it, I am here for a week visiting one of my detainee clients. Read more >>
- "Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of Arundhati Roy, the Indian author and activist, but they could also be those of… Read more >>
- Unbelievably, in 2011 this question has not yet been settled in the courts of the United States. Human rights attorneys are headed back to court in the coming month to argue that, yes,… Read more >>
- Nations and organizations around the globe observed yesterday as International Migrants Day. Twenty-two years ago, on December 18, 1990 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the… Read more >>
- The Occupy Movement, which has already been hugely successful in thrusting issues of inequality and corporate power into the public discourse, faces a critical juncture. As many of the larger encampments in New York, Oakland,… Read more >>
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Chile's 9/11happened in 1973, with the violent overthrow of the elected socialist government of Salvador Allende by army chief Agusto Pinochet. Among the many victims of this violence were two young Americans, Charles Horman, a… Read more >>
- Documents that the FBI turned over only after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Day Labor Organizing Network, and the Benjamin Cardozo Immigrant Justice Clinic… Read more >>
- Last week, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and members of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) completed marathon journeys through Europe after filing a complaint with the prosecutor of the… Read more >>
- CCR helped organize a sign-on letter protesting a recent increase in forced evictions from Haiti's camps for Internally Displaced Persons. The letter, signed by lawyers, law professors, and human rights advocates, urges… Read more >>
