November 16, 2012, Washington, D.C.— Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), CODEPINK, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli...
The Right to Heal Initiative is a multi-faceted project to address the impact of the war in Iraq. The objectives of the project are to examine the human rights impacts and implications of the Iraq...
Updated: December 31, 1969
November 18, 2017On November 3, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) informed the court’s Pre-Trial Chamber, ”[T]here is a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against...
Unhoused at high rates, LGBTQIA+ people face dire threat from such laws, which are cruel and unusual punishment, amicus brief says April 3, 2024, Washington, D.C. – The Supreme Court should rule that...
June 7, 2024...That lack of attention makes it easy to forget that more than two decades after its establishment as a detention camp for suspects in the War on Terror, 30 men are still being held at Guantánamo...
August 18, 2016, New York – In response to the news that the Department of Justice will cease to use private prisons, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: CCR welcomes...
Human Rights Groups Call Decision Unacceptable and Shameful April 12, 2019, Paris, The Hague, New York – In what human rights groups call an appalling decision, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II decided...
United to End Immigrant Detention and Mass Incarceration in Louisiana 12 p.m. CDT / 1 p.m. ET Join us for this important conversation co-hosted by the Center for Constitutional Rights, New...
Updated: July 9, 2020
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights at the oral argument in Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, RISE St. James v. St. James Parish, et al . This lawsuit challenging environmental...
Updated: September 27, 2024
November 20, 2020... Versions of both of these approaches were used successfully in New York City in Floyd et al. v. City of New York , which famously forced the city to rein in its stop-and-frisk program. In that...
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