Legal Glossary Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) , also known as Alien Tort Statute (ATS) – The Alien Tort Claims Act is a federal statute from 1789 that allows foreign victims of international...
Updated: February 19, 2010
Join us for a screening of CCR's short documentary "Waiting for Fahd" Saturday, May 16, 2015 2:00pm-4:00pm 10510 Culver Blvd, Culver City Join CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren for a screening...
Updated: June 1, 2015
On Thursday, February 25th, join the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) for a webinar featuring a panel of Israeli, Palestinian, and international legal experts examining the latest...
Updated: February 22, 2021
January 2013Friday January 25, 2013 8:45 am by Omar Farah, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Adnan Latif and Mohammed al-Hamiri arrived at Guantánamo through strikingly similar twists of...
October 2013David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center . When Herman Wallace died Oct. 4 at age 71, he had been a free man for about 2½ days. Before that, he spent 41 years in solitary...
August 17, 2017CCR has a long history of challenging overbroad and warrantless government surveillance, something that has ballooned since 9/11. Last week, we filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant...
On Friday, July 31, at 12:00 p.m. ET, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren will join New York State Senator James Sanders Jr. and several community partners via...
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In collaboration with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the Stanford University Human Rights in Trauma Mental Health Lab has released a report titled Mental Health Consequences Following...
Updated: April 4, 2018
January 7, 2021... ON ELECTION DAY last month, 52 percent of Puerto Rican voters answered “yes” to the following question: “Should Puerto Rico be admitted immediately into the Union as a state?” But the result of...
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