April 13, 2016Amid a news cycle crowded with reports about Republican fearmongering and the Obama Administration’s bureaucratic paralysis on closing Guantánamo, a local news article last week from Fort Wayne,...
October 16, 2012, New York—Today, in response to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Hamdan v. United States to invalidate the material support provisions of the Military...
August 3, 2018, North Dakota – Today, a federal judge blocked Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, from continuing a lawsuit against Earth First!. ETP...
As part of a continuing effort to challenge bills that threaten core First Amendment-protected activity in support of Palestinian rights, CCR and other rights organizations have engaged in advocacy...
Updated: December 14, 2018
location: Remote eligible with travel as needed The Associate Director of Political Education and Research (ADPER) will identify, develop, manage, and implement educational and human rights research...
Updated: April 11, 2025
The Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture Presents: Gitanjali Gutierrez. She will give a lecture entitled "American-Style Torture: Guantanamo, Black Sites and American Values"...
Updated: March 20, 2008
November 9, 2016Over the last several weeks, CCR has received 634 messages of support and solidarity with our clients from Sexual Minorities Uganda . As we head into court in Springfield this morning with SMUG, we...
The Trials of Patricia Isasa is a new opera by Kristin Norderval based on the true story of Patricia Isasa, who was kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured at the age of 16 by the military junta that...
Updated: January 5, 2016
April 17, 2016“Nothing is impossible in life, as long as you live and breathe,” Mohammed Al-Hamiri once said, as he sat across the table from me and his CCR lawyer Omar Farah, in Guantanamo’s Camp Echo. I wanted...
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the University Of Virginia School Of Law present a panel discussion on private military contractors and the fight for accountability for human rights abuses...
Updated: March 7, 2012
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