CCR hosts interns and fellows to build a new generation of lawyers and legal workers who will have the vision, expertise, and determination to create social change. CCR aims to support lawyers and...
Updated: September 27, 2017
November 25, 2015President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a $607 billion defense policy bill, despite his opposition to restrictions in the legislation that ban him from moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to the...
April 12, 2016The general overseeing Guantánamo war court defense teams has issued an order forbidding his staff to sleep at the Camp Justice compound following a new health risk assessment on cancer-causing...
September 6, 2016Ten years. It’s been exactly a decade since President George W. Bush announced on September 6, 2006 that 14 former CIA prisoners had been brought to Guantanamo. That was when we learned about the...
by Peter Weiss, Vice President for the Center for Constitutional Rights "Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.” The words are those of...
Updated: January 6, 2012
Movement lawyering is focus of fellowship December 6, 2018, New York – Four Bertha Justice Fellows will be spending the next two years at the Center for Constitutional Rights getting first-hand...
On March 2, 2015, CCR and Palestine Solidarity Legal Support (PSLS) sent a letter to University of Toledo President Nagi Naganathan, urging the University to comply with its obligations under the...
Updated: March 3, 2015
April 28, 2016It’s now been nine months since the first news stories were published about a cancer cluster, possibly linked to the presence of environmental toxins, afflicting lawyers and other staff at the...
July 8, 2021This is the late Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights speaking in 2006. Michael Ratner : “One of our hopes is, really, we believe, and we have believed for 30 years, that torturers...
For Sunshine Week, Open Records Project Adds FOIA tools March 15, New York – Today, to mark Sunshine Week, the Center for Constitutional Rights unveiled two new resources to help activists access...
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