December 7, 2017Dred Scott lives! With the Supreme Court’s declaration that President Trump’s third version of a Muslim travel ban is now enforceable, even as legal challenges against it proceed, the court and the...
CCR is proud to be a presenting partner of Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America. On Juneteenth, CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will provide a welcome address for Jeffery Robinson’s...
Updated: May 30, 2018
December 11, 2020...Diamond was returned to prison in October 2019 because of a parole violation, and she has found that conditions have not changed, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is...
We should all be concerned about human rights and about the negative effects of the Bush administration has had in that area—the torture, the unwarranted wiretapping, the disregard for the...
Updated: April 8, 2008
In July and August 2013, tens of thousands of Egyptians participated in large demonstrations to denounce the military's July 3 ouster of Mohamed Morsy, the country's first elected civilian president...
Updated: October 17, 2014
The Darkest Corner , authored by the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School in collaboration with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), documents a secretive form of...
Updated: August 31, 2021
The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay a $15.5 million settlement to avoid a trial over its alleged involvement in human rights violations in the Niger Delta. The case was brought on...
Updated: August 16, 2013
January 12, 2017As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
October 22, 2015, New York – In response to President Obama’s veto today of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents many of...
May 21, 2014, New York, Paris, Gaza, Jerusalem, Ramallah – On the occasion of the appeal in the civil suit filed by the family of Rachel Corrie against the State of Israel for the death of the...
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