This coming Sunday marks Mother’s Day, a holiday with roots in the post-Civil War burgeoning feminist and pacifist movements in the U.S. In its modern incarnation, Mother’s Day has become a more...
Makes Strong Recommendations to U.S., Including Reparations Washington, D.C. & New York City, May 28, 2020 — Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane was detained and sent to...
Georgia prison officials refuse to protect Ashley Diamond despite repeated sexual assaults and sexual harassment February 23, 2022, Macon, GA– Ashley Diamond , a Black transgender woman held in a men...
This is the first in a series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. *Photo credit: Hrag Vartanian I arrived at the Center for Constitutional Rights to start a new job in the midst of one...
Attorneys Provide Records to Review Board, Urge al Qahtani’s Release to Care June 15, 2016 – Tomorrow morning Guantánamo detainee Mohammed al Qahtani will have a hearing before a Periodic Review...
CCR is thrilled to announce that the U.S. oil company Unocal has agreed to compensate Burmese villagers who sued the firm for complicity in forced labor, rape and murder. The abuses were committed in...
January 4, 2011, New York, NY — Issuing unprecedented recommendations to the Haitian government, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has granted a legal request submitted in...
“Nothing is impossible in life, as long as you live and breathe,” Mohammed Al-Hamiri once said, as he sat across the table from me and his CCR lawyer Omar Farah, in Guantanamo’s Camp Echo. I wanted...
November 22, 2016, New York – Today, in response to a submission by four Palestinian human rights groups to the International Criminal Court (ICC) urging the ICC prosecutor to open a formal...
Join Center For Constitutional Rights Digital Engagement Manager, Alex Perotti , at Netroots Nation 2019 Conference, for a fun, interactive session that will provide ideas for how your...
