Two U.S. human rights lawyers were detained Sunday for 14 hours at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport before being deported back to the United States. Columbia University’s Katherine Franke...
Updated: May 4, 2018
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on November 4th. We will discuss how our clients, held in solitary for decades, reached a landmark settlement in Ashker v. Governor of California that will end...
Updated: November 5, 2015
July 8, 2017The Trump administration appears to be making its first moves toward fulfilling a campaign promise to fill the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with “bad dudes.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy...
Join former Olympia Food Co-op board members in court as they continue to defend against a case challenging the Co-op's 2010 boycott of Israeli products, a decision in line with the Co-op's...
Updated: August 12, 2019
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, we have taken on...
Updated: April 30, 2019
July 24, 2017A few hours after San Antonio officials announced nine people died in what they called a human trafficking crime, the Texas lieutenant governor took the tragedy as an opportunity to congratulate...
For almost two decades through litigation, legislative advocacy, research, and social movement support, CCR has challenged and sought to reform abusive and discriminatory policing policies and...
Updated: July 12, 2016
September 2007The CCR and other human rights lawyers filed a lawsuit against former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, accusing him of suppressing a 2003 riot which left over 60 people dead and hundreds...
May 15, 2009, New York, New York – In response to President Obama’s announcement of his plans to revive the military commissions at Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
Senior Staff Attorney Pam Spees will speak on CCR's current case filed on behalf of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) at Western New England University School of Law on April 9th. To learn more about...
Updated: March 27, 2013
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