November 21, 2017Last week, CCR co-hosted a convening of lawyers, activists, and academics from the United States and South Africa, together with our partners at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (...
"This report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard. And when we engaged in...
Updated: November 11, 2019
February 2010Though the NYC police department insists its "stop-and-frisk" strategy has reduced crime, data indicates otherwise.
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) is a massive legislative assault on fundamental rights, including the right to habeas corpus – the right to challenge one’s detention in a court...
Updated: January 11, 2010
From DemocracyNow.org: The Obama administration launched a drone strike in Yemen last week in an attempt to assassinate a U.S.-born Muslim cleric who has never been convicted of a crime. Anwar al-...
Updated: August 16, 2012
It’s no secret that institutional policies and practices historically created and currently maintain racial discrimination. The movements for Black Lives, against Apartheid, and for Roma rights...
Updated: September 28, 2020
March 2009The Justice Department has filed "unclassified" records in federal court outlining the government's cases against more than 100 detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, but...
On March 8, 1971, Haverford physics professor Bill Davidon and other members of the “Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI” broke into the Media, PA office of the FBI. They collected over 1000...
Updated: May 23, 2016
March 23, 2016Recidivism is a smaller problem for Guantanamo detainees now than under the previous administration, but Republicans insisted on Capitol Hill today that the prison camp must stay open for this reason...
January 14, 2016, New York – In response to the news of the departure of Gen. John F. Kelly, who oversees Guantánamo prison, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: We...
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