In response to recent attacks on Representative Ilhan Omar's stance on Palestinian human rights, the Center for constitutional Rights issued the following statement of solidarity: Since 1966, the...
CCR is proud to join the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program to mark a decade of the U.S.-led war in Iraq with speakers from the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) and Iraq...
Updated: June 19, 2013
January 29, 2016The movement to put private prison contractors out of business won some amazing victories in 2015. In the last two months, responding to organized action by California’s Afrikan Black Coalition and...
Casas-Castrillon v. Lockyer is one of several cases in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has signed on as amicus curiae to support non-citizens seeking relief from immigration...
Updated: August 5, 2008
The Advocacy Program Manager (APM) will collaborate with CCR staff and our allies on dynamic advocacy campaigns and initiatives that advance CCR’s organizational mission and support CCR’s clients,...
Updated: October 10, 2016
Charging former Paraguayan official Americo Peña-Irala with the wrongful death of Joelito Filártiga. The suit pioneered the application of a previously little-used 1789 federal statute, the Alien...
Updated: January 3, 2019
On October 25, 2005, in Washington, D.C., United States District Court Judge Gladys Kessler issued an opinion in the case of four Saudi nationals on hunger strike at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp...
This is a repost of a press release by the US Human Rights Network of which the Center for Constitutional Rights is a member. Atlanta, May 29, 2009 - In response to the Federal Emergency Management...
Challenging the government's decision authorizing the CIA and JSOC to target and kill Anwar Al-Aulaqi in Yemen.
Updated: August 30, 2021
WHEN: 7:30pm - 9:00pm Details below are for January 5th. Please click here for January 7th . WHEN: 7:30pm - 9:00pm January 2012 marks the shameful tenth anniversary of Guantánamo's opening...
Updated: January 5, 2012
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