CCR Executive Director, Vince Warren, explains the importance and need of closing Guantánamo, before its travesty of justice continues into another decade.
A lawsuit filed Monday seeks to force the U.S. government to make public the videotapes of harsh interrogation carried out on Mohammed al-Qahtani. Lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights...
To mark the shameful 10th anniversary of indefinite detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo and to call for an end to all unjust detentions, we will be creating a human chain between...
Details below are for January 7th. Please click here for January 5th . Join peace activist and poet Dan Berrigan, CCR's Legal Director Baher Azmy, and other friends for an evening of poetry and song...
December 22, 2011, New York, NY—Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), acting on behalf of leading human rights organizations and experts, submitted an amicus brief to the...
Roman Catholic bishops in the Netherlands offered “sincere apologies” to victims of sexual mistreatment, hours after a report by an official commission said church officials had “...
December 20, 2011, New York – Last night, attorneys for Iraqi torture victims abused in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison and other detention centers in Iraq challenged two private military...
The ten years since the attacks of 9/11 and range of government responses have featured two important and competing trends in the arena of civil rights damages litigation. On the one hand, federal...
Program Goal: The Haiti Assistance Task Force presents the final panel discussion in their three-part series focused on issues impacting Haiti entitled Human Rights in Reconstruction Haiti . A panel...
November 17, 2011, New York – Yesterday, The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued an open letter to Colombian President Manuel Santos condemning recent statements by the Colombian...
