The Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in Jesner v. Arab Bank in defense of the Alien Tort...
Ten years ago, the shocking photos of U.S. military personnel humiliating and torturing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib sparked global outcry as well as national hearings, investigations and finger...
Updated: May 5, 2014
When Ashker v. Governor of California was filed as a class action in 2012, California held thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, in Security Housing Units (SHU). Hundreds of these prisoners...
Updated: September 1, 2015
The Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) will be hosting a screening of Stanley Nelson’s dynamic new film The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution at the Film...
Updated: August 31, 2015
June 3, 2008, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released two reports on the conditions and treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. One report highlights numerous...
Miko Peled will be joined by Noor Elashi to discusses the case of the Holy Land Foundation Five, presenting a terrifying picture of governmental over-reach in post-9/11 America. Peled is releasing...
Updated: January 29, 2018
On April 7, 2021, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and a number of its member organizations—including the Center for Constitutional Rights—released a coalition letter urging World...
Updated: April 8, 2021
The Second Tuesday Lecture Series at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual...
Updated: November 21, 2017
February 6, 2020...Nahal Zamani, spokesperson for the Communities United for Police Reform: We’re disappointed in Governor Cuomo’s failure to address reducing police violence and improving police accountability and...
February 2015"What happened at the Abu Ghraib prison during the early days of the Iraq war is no secret: The whole world has seen the appalling photos . Detainees under American control were raped, beaten,...
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