Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long history of working closely with the Nigerian government to quell popular opposition to...
Updated: July 21, 2010
January 24, 2017, New York – In response to news reports about Donald Trump’s executive order targeting Muslims and refugees, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement:...
CCR is proud to endorse the 9th Annual Trans Day of Action (TDOA) 2013 organized by TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project. Join communities of Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) People of Color...
Updated: June 28, 2013
Please join CCR for an interdisciplinary panel discussion on Guantánamo Bay, art, and social justice at the Steven Kasher Gallery. CCR senior staff attorney J. Wells Dixon will join conceptual...
Updated: October 25, 2017
December 18, 2009, New York, NY – Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case challenging the racial profiling, arbitrary detention and...
Mohammed Al-Hamiri is a Yemeni citizen who was detained at Guantánamo for over 14 years, despite being cleared for release in 2009. He was released to the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia on April 16, 2016...
Updated: April 16, 2016
CCR and other organizations calling for human rights and for the rule of law in Palestine and Israel today sent a letter to academic institutions urging them to reaffirm their commitment to free and...
Updated: February 7, 2014
September 2, 2015If mass incarceration is one of modern America’s deepest pathologies, solitary confinement is the concentrated version of it: far too many people locked up for far too long for no good reason, and at...
Court of Appeals Rejects Defendants’ Attempt to Have Case Dismissed June 17, 2016, Miami – More than 12 years after government-planned massacres in Bolivia killed 58 unarmed civilians, the Eleventh...
The South Asian Bar Association presents an evening with CCR staff attorney Gitanjali Gutierrez. She will give a lecture entitled "American-Style Torture: Guantanamo, Black Sites and American...
Updated: April 9, 2008
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