A U.S. District Court has ordered the Department of Defense to grant a Guantánamo detainee access to his attorney, ruling against the Bush Administration’s effort to deny him counsel for months while...
October 2014"NEW YORK — Newly filed court papers show that the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is supporting the New York Police Department's discriminatory surveillance of Muslim communities...
Join CUNY Law: Center for Diversity in the Legal Profession and the W. Haywood Burns Chair in Human and Civil Rights for a panel discussion among contributors of The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated...
Updated: October 20, 2023
On June 7, 2007 CCR and five other leading human rights organizations published the names and details of 39 people who are believed to have been held in secret U.S. custody and whose current...
March 11, 2024...In the face of JXN Water’s ongoing lack of transparency , the organizations seek to ensure an official role for community involvement. The campaign urges that accountability and transparency must...
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), EarthRights International, the Western Shoshone Defense Project and the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights cordially invite you to...
Updated: March 30, 2011
In February 2014, CCR submitted written testimony for the second Congressional hearing on solitary confinement. The testimony highlighted developments from our work and developments since the first...
Updated: February 27, 2014
On the seventh episode of The Activist Files, your frequent host Senior Legal Worker Ian Head is joined by CCR Communications Director Chandra Hayslett to interview Jaribu Hill, a civil and human...
Updated: March 7, 2023
The New York City Bar Committee on African Affairs cordially invites you to a panel discussion, LGBT Rights as Human Rights: Recent Legal Developments in Africa . This panel considers developments in...
Updated: April 20, 2012
September 22, 2017Thirteen years after leaving Abu Ghraib prison, and nine years after filing suit in federal court, a group of former Iraqi detainees got to make the case before a judge in Alexandria, Va., on Friday...
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