Michael Ratner’s activism and human rights work dated back to the 1960s. He was a student at Columbia Law School during the 1968...
Updated: May 12, 2016
On the thirteenth episode of The Activist Files, Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain speaks with Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy and Senior Staff Attorney Katherine...
Updated: September 8, 2021
September 20, 2017An American citizen fighting for the so-called Islamic State is currently in the U.S. military ’s custody. If Donald Trump decides to keep him there, it could spark a far-reaching legal challenge...
This case involves a corporate trade group's challenge to 40 years of precedent limiting the government's ability to withhold information requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). On...
Updated: June 18, 2019
Guled Hassan Duran Is First So-Called “High Value” Detainee to Be Approved January 10, 2022 – In response to news that our client Guled Hassan Duran was approved for transfer by a periodic review...
October 9, 2020... With just five weeks to go until the Presidential Election, we’re pleased to note that, recently, six organizations involved in the long struggle to try and get the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
A federal class action lawsuit against Avi Dichter, former Director of Israel's General Security Service (GSS), on behalf of Palestinians who were killed or injured in 2002, when a one-ton bomb was...
Updated: October 31, 2019
July 13, 2015[caption align="right"] Delivering statement before UN working group on transnational corporations with respect to human rights.[/caption] I’ve just returned from the inaugural session of a United...
Join us for a virtual press conference following Supreme Court oral arguments in our No-Fly List case, Tanvir v. Tanzin . You must register on Zoom for the press conference in...
Updated: October 2, 2020
On August 19, 2021, the Cameroon American Council, #CameroonTPS Coalition, and the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter to women members of Congress urging them to support a designation of...
Updated: August 26, 2021
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