April 21, 2016, New York – In response to reports of proposed new rules for the controversial military commissions system at Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents men in...
An important oral argument is taking place on June 17, 2003 before the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California concerning the legal status of the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) in Doe v...
The conference will explore vital issues concerning civil liberties and national security in the aftermath of 9/11. The conference will draw from the experience of well-informed experts to help...
Updated: April 9, 2008
August 2013As the Police Department performed a mounting number of stops on New York streets, voices of opposition, slow and scattershot, struggled to be heard. Complaints, mostly from minority areas, never...
July 21, 2017As reported Wednesday in numerous outlets , a group of 43 Democratic and Republican U.S. senators have teamed up to introduce a bill, drafted with the help of the American Israel Public Affairs...
CCR is co-sponsoring rally on September 17, 2012 at 5pm by the Human Rights Coalition to abolish Solitary Confinement in Pennsylvania prisons. Multiple studies confirm that solitary confinement is...
Updated: September 14, 2012
December 2, 2016On September 13, I traveled to the front-line border with ISIS, at the outskirts of Himreen mountain which is next to Hawija. I met tens of women who had just crossed the separating mountain on foot...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture , and the Tea Project for a night of tea, art, poetry, music, and words by artists, activists, and leaders in the movements to end...
Updated: January 3, 2017
Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy will participate in a town hall organized by the Project On Government Oversight . Twenty years on, the repercussions of 9/11 are still felt...
Updated: September 10, 2021
June 20, 2017Several days a week, columnist James Gill exemplifies the mediocre writing, faulty arguments, and ignorance of basic facts that too often pass for commentary in The New Orleans Advocate . Gill was...
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