December 8, 2015It would be difficult to overstate Peter Weiss’s contributions to international human rights law. He became active in CCR early in its history and served on the board for nearly five decades,...
July 15, 2016, Albany – Today, the Vulcan Society, the fraternal organization of Black New York City firefighters, along with their attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the...
July 10, 2018“[It’s] like we’re buried alive.” That’s how CCR client Sharqawi Al Hajj describes his imprisonment at Guantánamo, as a cemetery. Before he was brought to the island prison, Sharqawi was disappeared...
Racketeering Conspiracy Lawsuit Against Krystal Two Bulls and Other Pipeline Protesters Dismissed February 15, 2019, North Dakota – Late yesterday, a federal judge dismissed a sprawling racketeering...
June 29, 2020Charges against Urooj Rahman and Colin Mattis should be dropped. [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last Monday, the Center for Constitutional Rights — along with a coalition of other civil rights...
September 1, 2021, San Diego, CA – Immigrant rights advocates released the statement below after presenting oral arguments beforeU.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant of the Southern District of...
Join the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies , the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University , and the Center for Constitutional Rights for an in-person ...
Updated: October 20, 2022
March 21, 2023Twenty years after the U.S. government invaded Iraq, we renew our call for reparations
October 5, 2024, New York – On the International Day of Action and as we approach one year since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian people in Gaza, the Center for...
June 1, 2020Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issues HISTORIC decision on former Guantánamo detainee’s case [caption align="right"] [/caption] Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane...
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