August 3, 2018, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was granted official special consultative status last week with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC...
November 15, 2016A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by 4 former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison thanks in part to Rutgers Law School professor Jeena Shah who played a key role in reviving...
We honor Juneteenth—the celebration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States—by envisioning a world freer than the one in which we currently live. Each year since the June 19, 1865 reading...
Updated: June 17, 2020
While there has been recent criticism of those taking the position that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, there is a long history of human rights scholarship and legal analysis that...
Updated: October 5, 2016
March 26, 2012, Jerusalem, New York - New photographic and video evidence made public today for the first time by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) indicates that controversial archeological...
On September 12, 2014, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and other experts submitted testimony to a UK Parliamentary Committee calling for evidence about the UK-US extradition treaty. The...
Updated: September 12, 2014
DATE: 2009-07-24 00:23:00 SOURCE: Embassy Tegucigalpa CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL HEADER INFORMATON VZCZCXYZ0000 OO RUEHWEB DE RUEHTG #0645/01 2050023 ZNY CCCCC ZZH O 240023Z JUL 09 FM AMEMBASSY...
Updated: December 17, 2010
CCR joined a coalition letter addressed to President Obama on December 20, 2016. The letter, coordinated by Grassroots Leadership, outlines key steps to dismantle some of the detention and...
Updated: December 21, 2016
September 10, 2019The Trump administration is separating Yemeni-American families. We're suing to reunite them. [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Thursday, we filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for...
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