CCR supports the call to Divest from the War Machine CCR is joining a coalition of groups in a Week of Action beginning today in support of the Divest from the War Machine campaign . The campaign...
Join grassroots activists, human rights organizations, and advocates for the detained men in holding President Obama to his promise by taking action. Together, we say “Not another broken...
January 4, 2012, New York – In response to President Obama’s New Year’s Eve signing of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act, the Center for Constitutional Rights (...
Peter Weiss, Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights discusses Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum, in which a group of Nigerians claim that they or their relatives have been the victims of...
Set to take place on the anniversary of the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, the call for a national prison strike today, Friday, September 9, by those inside prison...
In an interview that aired Wednesday night on the CBS Evening News, Attorney General Eric Holder suggested to Katie Couric that the Obama administration is unlikely to depart dramatically from the...
Announcing his plan to close Guantanamo Bay's prisons, President Barack Obama proposed Tuesday that the United States relocate the camp's detainees to the U.S. mainland where their indefinite...
Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit accusing a Louisiana pipeline company of refusing to hand over records about its claim to easements across hundreds of residents’ private properties. The...
But fears for the chilling impact of the prosecution were rampant. The Center for Constitutional Rights, whose late president Michael Ratner was Assange’s lawyer in the US, warned that the threat...
