WHAT : Accountability Today – Preventing Torture Tomorrow A panel discussion featuring the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, legal experts, and special video testimonials from victims of the U...
Updated: May 31, 2011
This January 11, 2014 marks the unacceptable 12th anniversary of indefinite detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo. Join us in Washington, D.C. to witness this anniversary together,...
Updated: January 10, 2014
March 31, 2011 - In 1976, 17-year-old Joelito Filártiga was abducted and later tortured to death by Americo Norberto Peña-Irala, the inspector general in the Department of Investigation...
Please join CCR for an important hearing in our case, Al Shimari v. CACI , a federal lawsuit brought in 2008 on behalf of Iraqi torture victims against U.S. government contractor CACI Premier...
Updated: September 18, 2017
Save the Date: September 30, 2009 Lunch discussion with Katherine Gallagher, CCR Staff Attorney and Laura Raymond, CCR International Human Rights Associate. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
Updated: September 23, 2009
A human rights group in Berlin, Germany, has filed a criminal complaint against the architects of the George W. Bush administration’s torture program. The European Center for Constitutional and Human...
Updated: May 11, 2016
January 29, 2010, Brussels and New York – At the start of the E.U.-U.S. Consultations on Human Rights, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Center for Constitutional...
Rachel Meeropol is a Senior Staff Attorney and Associate Director of Legal Training and Education at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on prisoners’ rights, Muslim profiling,...
April 16, 2009, New York – In response to President Obama’s statement today that the decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Bush officials who committed crimes related to...
15,000 Pages of Documents Previously Obtained by CCR Show U.S. Blocking Efforts at Accountability May 30, 2017, San Francisco – the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and the Center for...
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