May 21, 2012, Washington, D.C. – Today, Amnesty International USA, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture delivered to the White House a...
In the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which the United States ratified in 1994, torture is defined as "any act by which...
Updated: January 11, 2010
December 5, 2013, New York – Today, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that it has transferred the Center for Constitutional Rights’ client Djamel Ameziane from Guantanamo to...
November 8, 2016My abuela, a woman born in Old San Juan, taught me how to make café con leche. She taught me how to wake up my mind and my memory. So every morning, I wake up a few minutes early to make coffee. It’s...
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Updated: December 17, 2010
***Free and Open to the Public- 7 p.m. Jamil Dakwar is Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program (HRP) Rebecca Vilkomerson is Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace Alia Malek is a civil...
Updated: February 14, 2011
June 16, 2020This is the last in a four-part series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. It also appears as the latest episode of the Center for Constitutional Rights podcast, The Activist Files...
Ashley Diamond, Who Won Previous Changes Against GDC, Sues for Second Time November 23, Atlanta – Today, Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights...
April 24, 2009 Washington, D.C. – In a suit brought by British men imprisoned for two years at Guantanamo, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today reaffirmed its previous ruling that Guantanamo...
New Letter from Formosa Plastics Denies Access to Burial Grounds of Enslaved People May 22, 2020, St. James, LA — St. James residents today re-asserted their rights to visit burial grounds on...
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