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...
Updated: August 24, 2011
Mahmoud Khalil is a Palestinian activist and graduate student at Columbia University who was active with Columbia's Gaza Solidarity Encampment, serving as negotiator with the university and speaking...
Updated: September 26, 2025
October 22, 2023..."As we're watching a genocide unfold in Palestine with what looks like full complicity of the United States, we're also witnessing a parallel assault on those rising up to protest this genocide...
The UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination will be convening a series of panels to...
Updated: July 6, 2016
On July 2, 2008, the U.S. government transferred two Algerians from Guantánamo to the custody of the Algerian government. These were the first Algerians transferred from Guantánamo to...
March 6, 2020...Human rights groups welcomed Thursday's ruling. "Too many ICC states have cooperated with the U.S. to set up the global torture programme, we now call on these same states to cooperate with the...
September 1, 2015Changes in solitary confinement procedures in California prisons are at the core of a legal settlement announced Tuesday. The agreement in federal court between the state and a group of inmates held...
May 5, 2015, New York – The following statement was issued today by the Center for Constitutional Rights: The crisis in Yemen is only deepening. Innocent Yemenis are caught between the brutal war...
Majid Khan Faces Hurdles to Independence February 1, 2024, New York – In advance of the one-year anniversary of Majid Khan’s resettlement in Belize, his attorneys released the following statement:...
May 10, 2010, New York – In response to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive...
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