February 1, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) asked the United States Supreme Court to take up the case of Canadian citizen Maher Arar against U.S. officials...
May 13, 2010, New York – Late yesterday, the Obama Department of Justice chose to weigh in for the first time on the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case on behalf of Canadian citizen...
October 2013"This week, one of the world's most renowned and respected medical journals, The Lancet, joined the chorus of epidemiologists challenging the credibility of a recently-released report by the...
Although President Obama ended the U.S. torture program, there have been no prosecutions or accountability within the U.S. Now with the incoming Trump administration, there is the real danger that...
Updated: January 20, 2017
November 18, 2021, Washington D.C. ‒ Family members of people disappeared and executed by police and paramilitary units in Kenya say the U.S. government is funding and fueling these abuses, and are...
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 (...
January 7, 2022... Support for this exhibition and its related programming is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and from Illinois Humanities through its Envisioning Justice initiative. The...
June 21, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School released “ Window Dressing the Muslim Ban: Reports of waivers & mass...
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Updated: January 4, 2011
Please join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Wells Dixon and Professor Alex Whiting and as they discuss the role of lawyers in authorizing the post-9/11 US torture program. The panelists will speak about...
Updated: February 11, 2015
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