June 28, 2016Today is the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in CCR’s case Rasul v. Bush , in which the Court held that men held in Guantánamo had a right to challenge the legality of their...
Today the Center for Constitutional Rights delegation in Haiti visited the Barbancourt II displacement camp in Port-Au-Prince. This camp is home to 310 families who lost their homes in the earthquake...
Updated: March 17, 2011
Fact sheet on Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a case filed in April 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up in connection with the 9/11...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) are isolated for at least 22 ½ hours a day in cramped, concrete, windowless cells. They are denied telephone calls,...
Updated: August 15, 2024
Position Summary: First draft writer and editor for a broad range of products for the Center for Constitutional Rights; loves digging into social justice and civil and international human rights’...
Updated: March 9, 2023
July 2013"On Monday, 30,000 prisoners in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison in California went on hunger strike to protest solitary confinement and security unit conditions -- risking...
March 31, 2008, New York – The U.S. government referred capital military commission charges today against Ahmad Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian man who was transferred to Guantánamo from...
December 8, 2015It would be difficult to overstate Peter Weiss’s contributions to international human rights law. He became active in CCR early in its history and served on the board for nearly five decades,...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. The Women’s Building, Audre Lorde Room 3543 18 th Street #8 San Francisco, CA Featuring: Zahra Billoo , Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic...
Updated: April 1, 2011
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