September 13, 2017Transparency Goals We are huge fans of transparency in government. In fact, truth in all forms is a pretty good goal. The Center for Constitutional Rights and Defending Rights & Dissent just...
On July 10, CCR's Executive Director, Vincent Warren , will be conducting a teach-in at the Body Politic Intensive at the Gibney Dance Studio in New York City. As developed by Jill Sigman, the teach-...
Updated: July 2, 2018
September 26, 2019... Last year, after three iterations and multiple lawsuits, the travel ban reached the Supreme Court, where it was upheld. Groups like the Center for Constitutional Rights continue to file lawsuits...
Join the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies for a conversation with staff attorney Diala Shamas , introduced by Prof...
Updated: September 22, 2020
August 29, 2013, New York – In response to the announcement today that the United States has transferred two men from the prison at Guantánamo Bay to Algeria, the Center for...
For the past two decades, human rights advocates in Afghanistan and abroad have called for all perpetrators of human rights abuses in the country to be held accountable. Yet the collapse of the...
Updated: March 30, 2022
September 23, 2015This week the Center for Constitutional Rights appealed the dismissal of Al Shimari v. CACI , a case brought in 2008 on behalf of four Iraqi civilians against private military contractor CACI Premier...
October 17, 2016Ten years ago today, President George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA). It was enacted to authorize trials by military commission for the September 11 attacks, and...
Advocates Challenge the Application of ‘Unsafe’ Third Country Rule to Asylum Seekers Turned Back at Ports of Entry December 6, 2019, San Diego – Immigrant rights attorneys filed an emergency motion...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Rising Majority and the Movement for Black Lives for a virtual screening of WHO WE ARE: A Chronicle of Racism in America followed by an exclusive...
Updated: February 10, 2022
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