The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent Illinois State Senators on the Higher Education Committee a letter on March 4, 2014 urging them to oppose pending legislation that would withhold state...
Updated: April 3, 2014
Please join the NY Committee to Stop FBI Repression, Al-Awda NY, and DRUM for this important event. When: Saturday May 21st Where: 56 Walker St. in lower Manhattan- Any train to Canal St., two blocks...
Updated: May 18, 2011
Time: 5:30-7:30pm , Join CCR Staff Attorney Maria LaHood for a panel about CCR’s efforts to secure accountability for torture by the U.S. government and private military contractors. Speakers...
Updated: September 16, 2010
December 11, 2008, New York – Today, Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado said that Portugal is willing to accept Guantanamo detainees who cannot return to their home countries, and urged other...
Leading genocide and Holocaust experts back request for preliminary injunction to prevent “irreparable harm” to plaintiffs; Palestinians in Gaza submit new declarations as well November 16, 2023, San...
June 14, 2024...“Unfortunately, there has been very little scrutiny into 501(c)(3) organizations that openly support illegal activities in the West Bank and Gaza,” said Diala Shamas, a senior staff attorney at...
November 2014“We tortured some folks,” President Obama said recently. I was one of those folks, and today I am at the United Nations to confront the government responsible for torturing me. It is the first time...
September 26, 2017Barbara Blaine, founder and former president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, died on Sunday, September 24, 2017. She was only 61. We are devastated by the loss of our...
Since the beginning of Israel’s military assault on Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers, prominent scholars, lawyers, members of the media, and...
Updated: December 4, 2023
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren at Netroots Nation 2019 Conference in Philadelphia as he discusses how how activists in the...
Updated: July 8, 2019
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