Sunyata Altenor (she/her) is the Communications Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she directs the overall communications strategy for the organization. Prior to coming to the...
April 8, 2014, Guantanamo Bay and Washington, DC – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Ghaleb Al-Bihani, a Yemeni citizen who has been held without charge at Guantanamo for...
February 2009Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and...
As lawyers and advocates who are accountable to the intergenerational Black freedom struggle, the Center for Constitutional Rights has for Black people to reject the inhumanity of human hierarchy,...
Updated: February 18, 2022
Article II: Torture and Extraordinary Rendition. Participants include Michael Ratner and Vincent Warren of the Center of Constitutional Rights, Jonathan Hafetz, journalist Tara McKelvey, Carol...
Updated: November 21, 2007
On May 28, 1999, Chevron, through its Nigerian subsidiary, participated in the murder, shooting, and subsequent torture of Nigerian villagers who were engaging in environmental protest against the...
Updated: March 1, 2011
An Evening with: Professor Ahmet Dogan , father of Furkan Dogan killed on the Mavi Marmara Katherine Gallagher , Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights Phyllis Bennis , Institute for Policy...
Updated: May 18, 2011
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Laura Raymond will participate as a panelist in a discussion on International Human Rights Law in Latin America on Saturday, October 6th from 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. at the...
Updated: October 1, 2012
March 28, 2013 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and other civil rights organizations wrote to administrators at the Claremont Colleges in southern California to express concerns about...
Updated: April 2, 2013
November 19, 2019, New York – In response to the Trump Administration’s announcement that it will reject well established, clear and unambiguous international legal standards recognizing the...
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