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
The Center for Constitutional Rights is pleased to announce a monthly newsletter: the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative News Briefing. The newsletter, which will be published monthly in English,...
Updated: January 11, 2010
March 27, 2013, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys and co-counsel responded to notice that the City of New York intends to introduce into evidence a March 5, 2013 NYPD...
From the leader of the “free world” to the leader of a worldwide faith, each person must be subject to the rule of law. Where national legal systems are unable or unwilling to hold...
Updated: November 23, 2011
January 2009With the signing of yesterday's executive orders to close Guantanamo and end torture, we are finally seeing the beginning of a reversal of some of the nastiest inhuman practices of the Bush...
Moratorium Requested on NYPD Social-Distancing Enforcement May 26, 2020, New York, NY - Today, the attorneys behind two of the three landmark class action lawsuits that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and...
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...
June 6, 2015This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights had the honor of joining two dozen human rights organizations in support of Haitians seeking accountability from the United Nations for its role in...
"...This annual ritual [International Human Rights Day] poses an interesting set of questions as to how the U.S. and other Western powers are able to get away with wrapping themselves in the...
Updated: January 2, 2014
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