On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an executive order which purported to establish military commissions to try those captured in the “War on Terror.” Under the order, the...
Updated: January 11, 2010
CCR is proud to be co-sponsoring the 2018 BHRH Lawyers' Network Annual Human Rights in the U.S. Symposium/CLE. Please joins us at this year's program, Advancing Racial Justice...
Updated: May 7, 2018
February 28, 2008, Brussels – Today, a representative from the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) addressed the...
January 12, 2017As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Shayana Kadidal will speak on Civil Liberties vs. National Security in Phoenix on November 6th. Constitutional and civil rights developments in the U.S. since 9/11 have had...
Updated: October 20, 2014
What is the greatest threat to free speech at U.S. universities today? Who is trying to block students from organizing around Palestine on American campuses? How are they doing this? Can professors...
Updated: January 27, 2016
Detainees released from U.S. detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and Afghanistan live shattered lives as a result of U.S. policies in the "war on terror," according to a new report by...
Updated: September 8, 2021
For 20 years, the U.S. prison Guantánamo has been a synonym for horrendous crimes: enforced disappearances, torture, and detention without charge or trial. Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks...
Updated: December 16, 2021
CCR continues our First Wednesday’s summer series at Von, where CCR Legal Worker Aliya Hana Hussain and CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei will discuss their work on behalf of men detained at...
Updated: June 1, 2015
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llanes will join the Deerfield Progressive Forum for the 5th annual CCR presentation to a group of self-described politically sophisticated retirees. Stephanie...
Updated: February 24, 2017
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