CCR helped organize a sign-on letter protesting a recent increase in forced evictions from Haiti's camps for Internally Displaced Persons. The letter, signed by lawyers, law professors, and human...
April 10, 2019 Secretary of State Michael Pompeo U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20520 Re: Cease All Forms of Military Assistance to Israel Secretary of State Pompeo: The...
July 1, 2011, New York – Yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it will drop 99 out of 101 C.I.A. detainee torture cases that had been under preliminary review by Federal...
April 26, 2017 , New York, NY – Today, students at Fordham University filed a lawsuit against the school over its refusal to grant club status to Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). Represented...
Join CCR and the National Coalition To Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF), Amnesty International USA, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Witness Against Torture, and No Separate Justice campign...
Maria LaHood is Deputy Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, with expertise in constitutional rights and international human rights. She works to defend the constitutional rights of...
Rethinking Macro Economics from a Human Rights Perspective (Why MES with Human Rights 2) REPORT LAUNCH "The current global economic crisis is evidence that the neo-liberal economic policies that...
... This was deliberate; governments that torture deny in public what they did in secret. To make the denial credible, victims must not speak. But isolation serves another purpose, equally pernicious...
Plastics, polution, and burial grounds in Louisiana [caption align="left"] [/caption] Last week, we joined residents of St. James Parish, Louisiana, environmental justice groups, and legal...
Pressure is building on the new president from his more urgent supporters to begin validating their audacious hopes within his first 100 days. Special heat is on to abolish torture. After all, during...
