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 3, 2017
August 30, 2011, New York and San Francisco – Last night the first brief was filed in the appeal in CCR v. Obama, a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) against the...
September 27, 2021Twenty years after the U.S. declared its “War on Terror,” civil rights lawyers and advocates sent the Biden administration a memorandum covering a range of federal policies and programs,
February 2009Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and...
Today, December 8, 2005, in Washington, D.C., the Center for Constitutional Rights condemned what it views as a campaign of harassment and political persecution of former members of the Black Panther...
This is a public statement by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation...
"Holding U.S. Government Officials and Corporations Accountable for Torture and Human Rights Abuses Committed Abroad" Wednesday, October 28 Rutgers School of Law Baker Trial Court Room 6:30...
Updated: October 26, 2009
***Free and Open to the Public- 7 p.m. Jamil Dakwar is Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program (HRP) Rebecca Vilkomerson is Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace Alia Malek is a civil...
Updated: February 14, 2011
December 30, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Yemeni Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms (HOOD) issued the following statement strongly...
February 6, 2015, Alexandria, VA – Today, four Iraqi victims tortured at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison urged a federal district court to reject attempts by private military contractor CACI...
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