July 10, 2024, Buffalo, NY – Yesterday, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights , Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York , New York Civil Liberties Union , the Center for Constitutional Rights , and Justice...
On Thursday, September 3rd at 12:00pm ET , the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will honor CCR Board member, human rights scholar, and activist Professor Gay McDougall . Ms...
Updated: August 30, 2020
December 15, 2011, Los Angeles, New York, Paris – Yesterday, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Bostwick & Jassy LLP defending the International Federation for...
On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an executive order which purported to establish military commissions to try those captured in the “War on Terror.” Under the order, the...
Updated: January 11, 2010
January 14, 2019Wonderful news for our clients and their families from Yemen [caption align="right"] [/caption] Yemeni-Americans who for more than a year had been prevented from joining their families in the United...
Warning: The complaint and exhibits contain information that is graphic and that readers may find shocking or disturbing concerning acts of sexual violence, especially for survivors of sexual...
Updated: October 9, 2012
October 23, 2024 , San Diego, CA – Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals largely affirmed a lower court decision that held unlawful the government’s systematic turnbacks – or “metering” – of...
Trump’s Blanket Refusal to Release Any Detainee Amounts to Arbitrary Detention, Lawsuit Says January 11, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 16 th anniversary of the Guantánamo prison’s opening,...
Attorneys Provide Records to Review Board, Urge al Qahtani’s Release to Care June 15, 2016 – Tomorrow morning Guantánamo detainee Mohammed al Qahtani will have a hearing before a Periodic Review...
On the sixth episode of The Activist Files, CCR Senior Legal Worker Leah Todd talks to attorneys Beth Stephens and Judith Chomsky, who both formerly worked at CCR and continue to collaborate as...
Updated: February 26, 2019
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