“At all times throughout history the ideology of the ruling class is the ruling ideology.”—Karl Marx Lynne Stewart is a friend. She used to practice law in New York City. I still do...
Updated: July 22, 2010
Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Icelandic...
Updated: July 8, 2014
Introduction There are a number of detained men at Guantánamo from "high-risk" countries where there is a very real danger of persecution or torture should they be forcibly returned...
Updated: February 11, 2014
January 29, 2016Adapted from remarks delivered by Vince Warren upon accepting the 2016 Haywood Burns Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Civil Rights Committee of the New York State Bar Association, New...
February 1, 2016Recently we passed another sad milestone in the history of the Guantánamo prison: as of Sunday, January 31st, President Obama has kept Guantánamo open for longer than President Bush did. The standard...
Background: From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights has been on...
Updated: April 7, 2017
November 21, 2017Last week, CCR co-hosted a convening of lawyers, activists, and academics from the United States and South Africa, together with our partners at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (...
June 1, 2020Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issues HISTORIC decision on former Guantánamo detainee’s case [caption align="right"] [/caption] Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane...
January 7, 2021, New York – In response to yesterday’s events, the Center for Constitutional Rights put out the following statement: The violent right-wing insurrection in Washington yesterday and...
February 5, 2021In the wake of the 2020 uprisings following the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless other Black and brown people whose lives have been cut short by police violence, conversations...
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