I. Overview of the Black Immigrant Population in the United States According to a report by Roselyn Berry for the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), Black people who immigrate to the United...
Updated: October 19, 2021
August 13, 2015In 1980, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated Jerry Hartfield's murder conviction and ordered a new trial. But the trial never happened. Twenty-six years later, Hartfield crafted a handwritten...
Center for Constitutional Rights Submits “Victim’s Representations” in Support of Pending ICC Prosecution January 31, 2018, The Hague – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a...
On February 7, 2019, Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani testified before the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council at a hearing on the disciplinary...
Updated: April 12, 2019
CCR Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon will join a panel discussion on the current state of the Guantanamo military commissions. The event is organized by the Center on National Security at Fordham...
Updated: February 5, 2019
On May 3, 2007, Time Magazine announced that Canadian rendition victim and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Maher Arar has made this year's Time 100, a "list of 100 men and women...
August 18, 2015, Guantánamo – Today, an attorney from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a Periodic Review Board (PRB) at Guantánamo to recommend that Mohammed Kamin be cleared for...
Although President Obama ended the U.S. torture program, there have been no prosecutions or accountability within the U.S. Now with the incoming Trump administration, there is the real danger that...
Updated: January 20, 2017
This article originally appeared on The Huffington Post on May 24, 2010. US law officially proclaims Memorial Day "as a day of prayer for permanent peace." However, the US is much closer to...
Updated: June 3, 2010
June 19, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
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