This full-time, 6-month temporary position will provide administrative support to the Operations department (Finance, Facilities, Human Resources, and general administration). The temporary...
Updated: March 9, 2022
January 2024 marks 22 years of U.S. detention of Muslim men and boys at the Guantánamo Bay prison. Thirty Muslim men remain at the notorious facility: most have never been charged with a crime...
Updated: January 10, 2024
June 30, 2021...In this series, George Bisharat looks at private action and violence of the “frontier rabble” as a principal means of the settler colonial state’s expansion. He notes that private violence is a “...
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, the Center for...
Updated: November 16, 2021
State of North Carolina v. Joan Little is a 1975 case for which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) provided assistance to the defense. Joan Little was a prisoner who killed her white jailer...
Updated: October 9, 2007
December 2008Pressure is building on the new president from his more urgent supporters to begin validating their audacious hopes within his first 100 days. Special heat is on to abolish torture. After all, during...
Plea deals that result in life sentences for 9/11 defendants are the only path to justice – and the only way to close Guantánamo September 11, 2025, New York – On the 24th anniversary of 9/11, the...
August 28, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
November 2013Achieving justice for racial discrimination has long been fraught with obstacles. During the civil rights era, it was Southern governors and school boards who blatantly obstructed court orders to...
November 14, 2012, Vancouver and New York — Today, four torture survivors filed a complaint against Canada with the United Nations Committee against Torture for the country’s failure to...
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