March 30, 2012, New York and D.C. — Today, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a landmark admissibility report in the case of Djamel Ameziane, an Algerian man...
February 23, 2016, New York – In response to the release of President Obama’s new plan to close Guantánamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: This is not a plan to...
New York and Washington, DC—April 13, 2009 - The Obama administration should take immediate steps to declassify and release documents that would allow the American public to understand the truth...
Attend NY Senate Public Forum to Express your Support for Anti-Torture Legislation NY Senator Thomas K. Duane, co-sponsor of the Gottfried/Duane NY Anti-Torture Legislation explicitly prohibiting New...
Updated: November 11, 2011
Decision disproportionately harms LGBTQIA+ people, who are unhoused at extremely high rates
November 2014“We tortured some folks,” President Obama said recently. I was one of those folks, and today I am at the United Nations to confront the government responsible for torturing me. It is the first time...
March 2014The Bush administration’s plan to invade Iraq spurred the largest outcry and anti-war protests in the history of the world. More than ten years and hundreds of thousands of lives later, U.S. veterans...
November 16, 2015A few months ago, we told you about a troubling under-the-radar ruling in Munoz Santos v. Thomas , a case challenging the extradition of Jose Munoz Santos, a Mexican national, based on the testimony...
December 19, 2016On January 18, 2017, CCR will argue the last case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court during Obama’s presidency, Ziglar v. Abbasi , which by the time it is decided may become the most important...
Since the beginning of Israel’s military assault on Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers, prominent scholars, lawyers, members of the media, and...
Updated: December 4, 2023
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