April 2014...Bihani has never been charged with a crime and is the youngest of seven sons to join the jihad in Afghanistan. Now, as the U.S. is extricating itself from Afghanistan, Bihani wants out of...
James Madison once said that “a popular government without information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” The challenge Madison...
Updated: March 1, 2019
Our May 4 vigil is co-sponsored by the Prison Watch, Healing Justice and Immigrant Rights Programs of the American Friends Service Committee. We will be focusing on the issues of solitary confinement...
Updated: April 23, 2015
Please join us on President's Day for a special Freedom Flicks screening of the Academy Award-nominated film SPOTLIGHT , followed by a short program and Q&A with honored guest Phil...
Updated: February 8, 2016
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak about her litigation to fight the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) alongside eco, animal liberation, and social justice activists from the...
Updated: May 3, 2016
September 25, 2017, New York – In response to news that Barbara Blaine, founder and former president of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests),died yesterday, the Center for...
September 29, 2017The detention of an unnamed U.S. citizen held by the military as an enemy combatant is increasingly a legal and human-rights emergency, national security lawyers and civil libertarian activists say—...
October 23, 2017Should the U.S. Supreme Court be the court of the world? In the 18th century, two feuding Frenchmen inspired a one-sentence law that helped launch American human rights litigation into the 20th...
October 12, 2018 – This week, a Honduran immigrant, Mr. C., who was held in a New York detention center for five months, separated from and barred from communicating with his two-year-old son, was...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to participate in this side event for the 17th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court hosted by the American Bar...
Updated: December 5, 2018
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