Prepared for the 9th Annual World Day Against the Death Penalty, this position paper explores the link between the death row experience and torture. To read an op-ed by Rachel and Robert Meeropol...
Oral argument will be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals in the case of Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld tomorrow, October 6. Al-Zahrani is a civil action filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on...
September 29, 2011, Vancouver – Today, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) lodged a detailed and lengthy...
September 26, 2011 NEW YORK – In response to the release of a major human rights report on clerical sexual abuse, released today by Amnesty International in Ireland, CCR issued the following...
Center for Constitutional Rights ● Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute With the CO-SPONSORSHIP OF the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE IN PRACTICE:...
WHEN: Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 8:10pm. WHAT: CCR introduces & co-sponsors " You Don't Like the Truth: 4 days Inside Guantánamo ," a devastating new documentary about Guant...
On September 13, 2011, CCR and SNAP, a survivor-led support group for clergy sex abuse victims formally urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to investigate the Vatican for crimes...
September 13, 2011 – A survivor-led support group for clergy sex abuse victims today formally urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to investigate the Vatican for crimes...