November 2013By Laura Raymond, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights Can you travel abroad, commit war crimes and then return home and continue on with your life as if nothing happened...
On September 18, 2003, the City of New York agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that charged the New York Police Department with engaging in illegal racial profiling practices in stop and...
January 29 , 2014 , New York – The New York Senate passed S.6438, legislation drafted in response to the ASA resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, yesterday...
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we have moved and continue to move in solidarity with gender-oppressed people targeted by institutions designed to reinforce, as bell hooks theorized, “white...
Updated: April 14, 2022
September 15, 2009, New York – In response to today’s release of a report by an independent Fact Finding Mission established by the United Nations Human Rights Council on the December...
December 16, 2010, New York – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) wrote to President Barack Obama outlining concerns that deporting people with criminal convictions to Haiti...
February 18, 2012, New York –Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request for rehearing in the case USA v. El-Mezain, et al . The defendants are five former officers and...
December 6, 2016Thanks to Donald Trump, the concept of a “Muslim registry” has become part of the public political discourse. Well-meaning allies have promised that they will be among the first to sign up if such a...
Civil Rights Group Argues Family Separation Meets Legal Standard for Torture October 4, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed in a Manhattan court for the immediate...
Cable 09MADRID347 View and download this entire cable here 09MADRID347 “Spain: Prosecutor Weighs GTMO Criminal Case vs. Former USG [U.S. Government] Officials.” Date of cable: April 1,...
Updated: December 18, 2010
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