August 21, 2013 – Today, in response to the sentencing of Pfc. Chelsea Manning, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement. We are outraged that a whistleblower and a...
James Madison once said that “a popular government without information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.” The challenge Madison...
April 17, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum...
May 20, 2008, WASHINGTON, D.C. — Guantanamo attorneys, experts, and – for the first time - a former detainee today testified to Congress to call for a solution for the approximately 50 refugees still...
December 13, 2011, New York – In the wake of the House-Senate conference’s approval of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (...
October 9, 2009, New York, NY – The Court of Appeals heard arguments today in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) warrantless surveillance case, Wilner v. National Security Agency (NSA...
Jasmine Jacobs is the Donor Relations Associate at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works closely with the Director of Development to manage relationships with CCR’s donors and also...
In decisions about what cases to take and in our assessment of the outcome of a case, CCR looks beyond a narrow legal lens and considers above all a case’s value to the social movements of which it...
Trump imposed a travel ban on six predominantly Muslim countries, a presidential proclamation adding two more. Targeted nations include Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, plus North Korea...
Paris, New York, 26 November 2007 - The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)...
