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December 5, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the organization litigating the landmark stop-and-frisk case, Floyd v. City of New York, released the following statement in response to Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio’s appointment of William… Read More >>
December 5, 2013, New York – Today, U.S.-based civil rights and human rights groups signed an open letter to President Obama urging the administration to make good on its stated commitment to be more transparent and accountable for its “targeted… Read More >>
December 5, 2013, New York – Today, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that it has transferred the Center for Constitutional Rights’ client Djamel Ameziane from Guantanamo to Algeria against his will despite his well-founded fear of persecution in his… Read More >>
December 3, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents SNAP (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), released the following statement on the Vatican’s response to a set of questions posed to it… Read More >>
November 25, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, Beldock, Levine & Hoffman and Covington & Burling, urged the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to reject a request by New York City police unions… Read More >>
November 25, 2013, New York – In response to reports from Honduran civil society, opposition parties, and international election observers of irregularities and intimidation by state and other unidentified forces of voters and observers in yesterday’s presidential election in Honduras,… Read More >>
November 22, 2013 - Today, an appellate panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied the City of New York’s request to vacate District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s ruling in the class action lawsuit Floyd v.… Read More >>
By Pamela Spees, Senior Attorney with the CCR who has filed cases in the U.S. related to the 2009 Honduras coup.
For over a decade, New Yorkers from all walks of life have brought this to Mayor Bloomberg's attention time and time again: the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practices are not only racially biased and harmful to communities,…
A federal appeals panel on Friday denied a request by lawyers for New York that it overturn a judge’s sweeping ruling on the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices, all but ending the Bloomberg administration’s ability to…
By J. Wells Dixon As Congress begins debate on the 2014 defense authorization bill this week, both the president and the legislature have an opportunity to make meaningful progress toward closing Guantánamo and ending the human…
By Laura Raymond, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights Can you travel abroad, commit war crimes and then return home and continue on with your life as if nothing happened? If you are…
"Guantánamo's military tribunals were not created to try crimes, but to hide them. This system was set up to ensure that the U.S. government's torture program would never face trial, and so far it has…
Commentary: Iraqis and former US soldiers join forces in fight for justice In early October, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the principal human rights body of the Organization of American States, refused to hear a…
