When the New York Times broke the story of the original NSA warrantless surveillance program in December of 2005, CCR’s legal staff realized that many of our international communications in the...
Updated: September 24, 2012
April 17, 2024...“This is a historic trial that we hope will deliver some measure of justice and healing for what President Bush rightly deemed disgraceful conduct that dishonored the United States and its values...
On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court announced that it would not be hearing the cases of the Guantánamo detainees for the time being. The Court denied the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co...
The Center for Constitutional Rights submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to take on the case of Mohamed Osman Mohamud. Mohamud v. United States is one of the first...
Updated: August 16, 2017
Human rights defenders are people like you – people who defend the rights of others. Join us to learn what human rights defenders do, who they are, and what special protections they have under...
Updated: May 13, 2014
December 2014"Now that the Senate has pulled back the curtain on America’s embrace of torture, what’s next? Precious little, it seems. Washington seems ready to congratulate itself for being honest about past...
Jahmall Weekes is the IT Associate at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Jahmall supports the IT Manager with CCR's existing technology infrastructure. Prior to coming to the Center for...
A group of predominantly U.S. Black and Brown social justice leaders - dubbed the #JusticeDelegation - recently returned from Israel/Palestine where they experienced Israel's occupation of Palestine...
Updated: June 1, 2018
May 19, 2023...Pro-Palestinian Democratic socialist lawmakers Zohran Mamdani of Queens and Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn have introduced the “Not on Our Dime!: Ending New York Funding of Israeli Settler Violence...
Money Belongs to the People of Afghanistan and Should be used to Stabilize Economy and Relieve Suffering, Court Filing Says April 22, New York – Afghan civil society groups are opposing the effort by...
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