"The U.S. Attorney filed an extraordinary motion this week in the controversial prosecution of Rasmea Odeh, seeking an order to empanel an anonymous jury and sequester jurors from protests occurring...
Vincent Warren Accountability: No One’s Above the Law A Review of Obama’s First 100 Days Vince Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights University of Pittsburgh Law School...
"NEW YORK — Newly filed court papers show that the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is supporting the New York Police Department's discriminatory surveillance of Muslim communities...
December 12, 2008, New York – This week, the Senate Armed Services Committee released a bi-partisan report almost two years in the making on the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, proving, beyond...
Dakota Access Lawyers Abused Legal System to Stifle Advocacy, Sanctions Motion Argues February 6, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Earth First! Journal urged a...
February 9, 2012, New York, NY – In response to Tuesday’s reintroduction in the Ugandan parliament of a bill that would require the death penalty for consensual sex between persons of the...
Rights Groups Applaud Move Towards Accountability and Urge Obama Administration to Cooperate with Investigation February 19, 2016, New York – In response to news reports that a French judge has...
Twelve years after horrific photos surfaced of U.S. soldiers torturing Iraqi civilians at Abu Ghraib prison, torture remains headline news. Disturbingly, the focus of this public conversation has...
On May 8, 2017, CCR joined a coalition of human rights advocates calling on the U.S. Government to demosntrate leadership on human rights in the Americans, focusing on constructive engagement with...
... Current and former sex workers have come out in support of both bills, but the coalition powering Salazar's bill is much wider and includes several LGBTQ rights groups, transgender-led...
