The Honorable Elaine C. Duke Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Department of Homeland Security Washington, DC 20528 November 16, 2017 Dear Secretary Duke: We are a coalition of 56 civil rights,...
Updated: November 16, 2017
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we have moved and continue to move in solidarity with gender-oppressed people targeted by institutions designed to reinforce, as bell hooks theorized, “white...
Updated: April 14, 2022
August 25, 2016I joined the Center for Constitutional Rights through the Ella Baker Summer Fellowship Program to understand better how I, when I become a lawyer, can be more responsive and accountable to social...
As we look back on the past 20 years since 9/11, certain issues come to the forefront – the toll of the war in Afghanistan; the torture of detainees in CIA custody; the worldwide drone program; the...
Updated: September 24, 2021
Following the United States government’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and the Taliban’s takeover of the country, the Biden Administration announced it would freeze over $7 billion held in the...
Updated: March 23, 2026
October 25, 2022We'll appear before the Commission with the Center for Justice and International Law; US government officials will also participate
October 19, 2011, Surrey, BC —Tomorrow, four individuals who allege they were tortured during George W. Bush’s tenure as president of the United States will lodge a private prosecution in...
New Perspectives on Guantánamo: Art, Activism and Advocacy, will explore the history of the United States’ use of GTMO in the 1990s to house individuals from Haiti and Cuba who fled political...
Updated: September 9, 2014
Remarks by CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren f rom press conference with Mayor de Blasio on January 30, 2014, announcing agreement to drop the City's appeal i n Floyd v. City of New York .
Updated: January 31, 2014
On March 19, 2026, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) filed a complaint on behalf of seven plaintiffs representing a class of Yemeni...
Updated: May 1, 2026
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