The post-9/11 era has defined nearly every aspect of the 21st century. Its most striking ideologies, laws, and policies -- boundless executive powers, a secret and global torture program, indefinite...
...Extended solitary confinement can and does lead to prolonged and sometimes permanent negative socio-psychological and physical effects. In a recent study on the mental health consequences of...
On Monday, April 7, 2008, Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute (HRI) and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) will co-host a conference, THE UNITED STATES AND THE INTER-AMERICAN...
*All are welcome. Not limited to lawyers or law students!* Attorneys: This course has been approved by the Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on Continuing Legal Education for 2.00 total CLE hours of...
Join CCR on April 25, 2018, as Al Jazeera Fault Lines launches its short film, Between War and the Ban , which examines how the war in Yemen and Trump's Muslim ban are leaving Yemeni-Americans and...
September 26, 2007, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that it, along with other human rights lawyers, has filed two lawsuits charging former Bolivian...
January 3, 2020, New York – In response to the Trump administration’s aggression in Iraq and Iran and the assassination of Iranian military Commander Qassim Soleimani, the Center for Constitutional...
July 26, 2011, New York – Yesterday, CCR joined with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other civil liberties groups to file a brief of amicus curiae in the case, United States v...
January 14, 2010, New York, Washington DC, and Port-au-Prince – In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, six prominent rights groups issued a statement today calling for relief...
