December 18, 2007, Washington D.C. – Hundreds of innocent torture victims came forward and filed a complaint in Washington federal court last night against CACI, the private military contractor...
July 22, 2008, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today welcomed the arrest of notorious war criminal and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić. CCR and co-counsel brought a federal...
January 7, 2010, New York and Washington DC – Congress should not prevent disclosure of its knowledge and oversight of the CIA’s use of rendition, secret detention, and torture, three...
On the 15th episode of The Activist Files, Staff Attorney Chinyere Ezie and Dean Spade , author , activist, and law professor at Seattle University School of Law, discuss the state of the queer and...
Updated: June 20, 2019
Evidence suggests ICE targeted Khalil and other activists based on info from Canary Mission and other anti-Palestinian groups November 20, 2025, New York – Mahmoud Khalil today brought a lawsuit...
CCR is pleased to co-sponsor a webinar event titled Insecure Communities: Government Surveillance, Mass Deportations, and the Fight to Protect Our Civil Liberties . The panel will feature CCR Legal...
Updated: November 16, 2012
Biden administration conceals role at “lily pad” sites, where Afghans face months in limbo, inhumane conditions January 14, 2025, New York – The U.S. government has enlisted at least 36 countries to...
September 26, 2011 NEW YORK – In response to the release of a major human rights report on clerical sexual abuse, released today by Amnesty International in Ireland, CCR issued the following...
Rachel Meeropol is a Senior Staff Attorney and Associate Director of Legal Training and Education at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on prisoners’ rights, Muslim profiling,...
Watch the full day of panels on YouTube , or as a free download from iTunes U . The day-long event looked at how Copelon's work helped to define and shape the field of international women's human...
Updated: September 28, 2017
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