April 11, 2013, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, 25 prominent human rights and civil liberties organizations sent a joint letter to President Obama urging the swift closure of Guant...
A film about CCR's client at Guantánamo is screening on Saturday, November 23 at 7:30 pm as part of Impugning Impunity: A Human Rights Documentary Film Series presented by the Abraham Lincoln...
Updated: October 25, 2013
November 2006New legal documents seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, George Tenet, and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers for their alleged role in abuses...
Please join us as Afrika Owes, administrative assistant at The Center for Constitutional Rights and community organizer, as she shares her first hand experience in an enganing discussion of the use...
Updated: April 25, 2019
CCR will join a panel with The Columbia Center for Oral History (CCOH) at a two-day conference exploring the role of oral history in documenting, disseminating and educating students and the public...
Updated: April 26, 2013
May 14, 2013, New York – Today, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that, in light of the City’s “distressing pattern of limited FDNY minority hiring,...
On July 25, 2011, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed on Honduras. CCR staff member Laura Raymond responded with the letter below, which was not published. The Truth and Reconciliation...
Updated: August 23, 2011
Mohammed Abushanab fled persecution by the Israeli military in West Bank, only to be incarcerated by ICE in Texas April 15, 2026, Houston – Mohammed Abushanab, a 27-year-old Palestinian asylum-seeker...
On the thirteenth episode of The Activist Files, Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain speaks with Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy and Senior Staff Attorney Katherine...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Center for Constitutional Rights Says President Lacks Authority to Detain Prisoner November 30, 2016, Washington – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit challenging the...
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