October 22, 2023...“This post appears intended to chill lawful, constitutionally protected protest,” tweeted the Center for Constitutional Rights in response to Adams. “Accusing supporters of Palestinian human...
September 26, 2011 NEW YORK – In response to the release of a major human rights report on clerical sexual abuse, released today by Amnesty International in Ireland, CCR issued the following...
New York, May 26th, 2009 – The beginning of the trial in the landmark human rights lawsuits Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) and Wiwa v. Anderson has been delayed. The case had been previously...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is a co-sponsor of this roundtable discussion organized by Pakistan Solidarity Network (PSN). The discussion will feature Sarah Knuckey (NYU Law) and Naureen Shah...
Updated: December 6, 2012
September 4, 2020...The probe has been welcomed by human rights activists and advocacy groups such as the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which denounced the sanctions as "an unprecedented...
May 12, 2010, Baton Rouge and New York – Today, Toledo-based psychologist Dr. Trudy Bond challenged the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists’ failure to investigate alleged...
February 2012On Tuesday, February 28, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge brought by 12 Nigerian plaintiffs who say a Shell oil subsidiary aided and abetted acts of murder, rape and systematic torture by the...
Maria Lahood is a visiting assistant clinical professor at Northwestern law school's McArthur Justice Center and senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Maria specializes in...
Updated: November 16, 2007
CCR and nine other organizations sent a letter to Congress members on August 9, 2017, expressing opposition to the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, federal legislation that would amend existing law to ban...
Updated: December 14, 2018
On December 4-6, 2019, the Center for Constitutional Rights presented argument before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on behalf of two men detained at Guantánamo, urging the...
Updated: March 2, 2020
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