Join us for a community-centered online briefing with Center for Constitutional Rights cooperating attorneys Jules Lobel and Samuel Miller following the court argument for Ashker v...
Updated: May 8, 2020
On November 10, 1995, nine Ogoni leaders (the “Ogoni 9”) were executed by the Nigerian government after being falsely accused of murder and tried by a specially created military tribunal. Those...
Updated: January 22, 2008
August 4, 2023...Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria refused to dismiss the torture suit against CACI Premier Technology , a military-industrial...
In Unprecedented Testimony, Guantánamo Prisoner Majid Khan Finally Tells His Story at Sentencing Hearing October 28, 2021, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ‒ Today, a man who was disappeared and tortured at...
Since the June 28, 2009 military coup d’etat that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, CCR has been involved in advocacy aimed to address systemic human rights violations in Honduras. CCR has advocated...
Updated: February 6, 2013
*Updated March 2017* Download this factsheet as a PDF. What is Solitary Confinement? Today, tens of thousands of individuals across the country are detained in near-total solitude for between 22 and...
Updated: March 15, 2018
August 2013As the Police Department performed a mounting number of stops on New York streets, voices of opposition, slow and scattershot, struggled to be heard. Complaints, mostly from minority areas, never...
Location: The Staff Attorney, CCR South, must live and work in Jackson, Mississippi, with periodic onsite visits to the organization’s headquarters in New York City. This position is based in Jackson...
Updated: August 7, 2026
The demand for human rights and social justice lawyering will not, alas, retreat any time soon, and so we are dedicated to helping ensure that there is an ample supply of well-trained movement...
Updated: December 11, 2024
New York, NY - This week, Senator Lugar of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee released a draft report calling for the reconsideration of the United States' unilateral embargo on Cuba. The Center...
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