Following Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, 9/11 families sought assets that judge rules belongs to sovereign state to satisfy Taliban debts, but doing so would recognize Taliban as “government” of...
Oct 12, New York – In response to the mounting violence in Palestine, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: It is our commitment to human dignity and the preciousness...
October 3, 2017Donald Trump has rightly drawn condemnation for his repeated threats to reinstate waterboarding and other forms of torture. But under a little-reported program, “ Special Administrative Measures ” (...
by Jules Lobel, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights The Occupy Movement, which has already been hugely successful in thrusting issues of inequality and corporate power into the public...
Updated: December 6, 2011
Click here for a printable version of the factsheet . The release of the photographs and video documenting horrific torture of Iraqi prisoners detained by the U.S. at Abu Ghraib drew demands for...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Coalition Demands Obama Step Up Pace of Transfers and Review Boards, Take Charge of Insubordinate DOD, and Finally Close Prison Washington, DC – Today, a coalition of human rights activists, torture...
September 7, 2017Today, September 7, 2017, CCR and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) appeared before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) during its 164th session in Mexico City...
December 11, 2023Attacks against queer and trans people in state legislatures continue unabated, with lawmakers demonstrating their intentions over the past few weeks to maintain the momentum from last year's record...
The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Amicus Brief urging the California court to investigate questions of the integrity of electronic voting in Riverside County and that claims by election...
On February 23, 2006, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to news reports confirming further abuse of prisoners at Guantánamo. CCR leads a team of...
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