Updated: November 26, 2008
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on July 1, 2015. We’ll discuss secret detention and torture, in fiction and reality. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will be joined by author Ellen Meeropol...
Updated: June 24, 2015
March 17, 2016This past February, President Obama delivered his official Guantanamo Bay closure plan to Congress, seven years after he first issued an executive order to close the detention center. If the plan is...
July 12, 2017Migrant justice advocates and lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against top U.S. immigration authorities including the Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. They allege that U...
THEN: In the 1970s, there were only 3,000 women entering law school yearly and a mere 7,000 in practice. Women were discriminated against (legally), disparaged (without recourse), punished for being...
Updated: May 21, 2008
In 2017, the Prosecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC), filed a request to open an investigation into alleged crimes in and related to the armed conflict in Afghanistan, including those...
Updated: November 25, 2019
February 5, 2009, New York – Attorneys for Mohammed al Qahtani, the victim of the “First Special Interrogation Plan” overseen by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, filed a motion last night...
January 22, 2010 Judge Orders New York to Correct Bias in Fire Department By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT A federal judge on Thursday ordered the City of New York to remedy years of discriminatory hiring in...
June 27, 2012, New Orleans – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a federal class action lawsuit seeking to remove from the Louisiana sex offender registry all individuals...
December 28, 2016As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
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