March 4, 2016More than 100 people turned out last night for a CCR discussion titled “Challenging the rise of Islamophobia in America: An honest conversation.” And an honest as well as far-ranging conversation is...
November 4, 2022, The Hague, New York, Paris – After over a year’s wait, FIDH and its member organizations OPEN ASIA | Armanshahr and the Center for Constitutional Rights welcomed the International...
November 21, 2012, New York, NY – In response to today’s announcement that the Ugandan parliament has reintroduced its notorious anti-homosexuality bill, the Center for Constitutional...
On Friday, January 18, the government made public a motion filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on behalf of Majid Khan, a former CIA ghost detainee now held at Guantanamo. The motion...
May 2012In 2002, Maher Arar was stopped while on a layover at John F. Kennedy International Airport on his way home to Canada. US officials detained Arar for two weeks and then told him that, based on...
Join us on May 30th for JUSTICE BEATS : a virtual music festival to benefit communities in urgent need. All day we will be amplifying musicians, DJs, and other artists working to support their...
Updated: May 22, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 13, 2012 — As the U.S Supreme Court prepares to consider whether corporations are immune from liability for human rights violations, a coalition of leading human rights...
December 5, 2017, New York – In response to reports that the Trump administration plans to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following...
January 15, 2016In the summer of 2002, Chinese security officers arrested Doe VIII (whose name is withheld to protect his family), a practitioner of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong. His arrest was part of...
Actions on U.S. torture brought in Spain under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 13, 2019
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