Victims Seek Accountability from Court of Last Resort December 6, 2019, The Hague/New York – During a three-day hearing this week, attorneys representing victims of the U.S. torture program argued...
We honor Juneteenth—the celebration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States—by envisioning a world freer than the one in which we currently live. Each year since the June 19, 1865 reading...
Updated: June 17, 2020
January 11, 2021Biden News: Biden must take swift action to close the infamous Guantánamo Bay prison [caption align="right"] [/caption] Today marks the beginning of the 20th shameful year of Muslim men being...
November 28, 2023In interviews and articles, our staff provide analysis
The Policy Advocacy Manager (PAM) will conduct policy advocacy, primarily at the federal level, to advance the Center for Constitutional Rights’ key priorities in challenging white supremacy,...
Updated: November 17, 2025
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we’ve developed a distinctive set of tools and strategies that mine the fine veins of principles that are justice-enabling, use litigation strategically to...
Updated: December 11, 2024
Madrid, April 27, 2010 – Today, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a motion with Spain’s national court (Audencia Nacional) seeking to intervene as a party (...
February 7, 2011, Geneva and New York – Today, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints, with more than 2,500-pages of supporting material, in Geneva against former U.S...
Today US Army Private Bradley Manning is to be formally charged with numerous crimes at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by members of the Icelandic...
Updated: July 8, 2014
February 26, 201815 years after torture at Abu Ghraib, a historic ruling in the fight for accountability Nearly 15 years after the horrific abuses at the Abu Ghraib "hard site" prison in Iraq came to light, a...
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