The Military Commissions Act was prompted, in part, by the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2006 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld which rejected the President’s creation of military commissions by...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Vatican fails to submit its report; survivors and human rights group apprise committee of its lack of progress September 5, 2017, New York – Today, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (...
Window Dressing the Muslim Ban , authored by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School, documents the impact of the Muslim Ban on Yemeni nationals applying...
Updated: June 26, 2018
This report is a product of our united efforts. This report uniquely recounts the experiences of prisoners inside Guantánamo Bay prison. Other reports, for the most part, rely on the...
Updated: January 11, 2010
New report on world’s largest detention system shows policies designed to punish immigrants spread coronavirus and how system degrades and dehumanizes people February 3, 2022 — ICE detention...
12 years after historic ruling, monitor continues to report unconstitutional stops, racial profiling February 26, 2025, New York – I n response to the year-end report by the court-appointed monitor...
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There has been dramatic growth in the number of people held in local jails in New York State in the last decade, with the total capacity of jails in upstate New York and Long Island increasing by 20...
Updated: January 11, 2010
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
Reports Examine Atrocity Crimes, Minority Stress, International Law May 22, 2016, Kampala and New York – Today, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released...
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