Barack Obama, the former US president, famously promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre, issuing an executive order in January 2009 to shut it down. But nearly a decade later the prison...
Updated: August 14, 2018
Join CCR attorney Katherine Gallagher and Professor Dina Haynes in a panel discussion on “Rendition and Human Trafficking”. This panel will be part of a day long symposium on Complicity in...
Updated: January 10, 2008
January 14, 2010, New York, Washington DC and Port-au-Prince – In the wake of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, six prominent rights groups issued a statement today calling for relief...
Updated: September 30, 2014
August 14, 2013, Springfield, MA – Today, in a first-of-its kind case brought by a Ugandan LGBTI advocacy organization against a prominent U.S. anti-gay extremist, a federal judge ruled that...
September 14, 2015The Supreme Court seems eager to hear a case on the constitutionality of a distinctively American form of punishment: prolonged solitary confinement. “Years on end of near total isolation exact a...
March 11, 2021This year, we are celebrating the 55th anniversary of the Center for Constitutional Rights. We selected March 11 to launch this celebration of our legal and advocacy social justice work because it's...
July 9, 2018CCR Heads to Court in Guantánamo Mass Legal Challenge, Arguing Court Should End the Perpetual Detention of "Forever Prisoners" [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, CCR will challenge...
September 2011Human rights lawyers and victims of clergy sexual abuse filed a complaint urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate and prosecute Pope Benedict XVI and top Vatican officials...
May 20, 2022...Palestinian-French human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri urged the International Criminal Court to accelerate its investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Israeli officials, in a new...
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