Update: this hearing was previously scheduled for 11/9. This is the new date. Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Muslims for Just Futures, and allies in a solidarity call to support Urooj...
Updated: November 7, 2022
Sanchez-Espinosa v. Reagan is a case that challenged U.S. officials’ support for murder, rape, and other torture in Nicaragua. In May 1984, while the International Court of Justice was issuing a...
Updated: July 31, 2018
July 13, 2020On July 8th, the Abolitionist Law Center, Amistad Law Project, and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, seeking to abolish the states’s cruel mandatory Life Without...
New York and Washington, DC, May 1, 2013— The Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) join the United Nations and the Inter-American...
August 7, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
July 1, 2020...“We write to you to express our deep concern over the planned annexation of occupied Palestinian territory by the government of Israel,” says the letter signed by Tlaib. “Prime Minister Benjamin...
CCR joined as an amicus in Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida , two cases that will evaluate how the Eighth Amendment’s clause on cruel and unusual punishment applies to sentencing...
Updated: June 28, 2010
March 19, 2013, Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a group of U.S. veterans of the Iraq war and two Iraqi organizations launched the “Right to...
Brad Parker is Associate Director of Policy at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He leads the organization’s policy advocacy at the federal, state, and international levels, developing and...
Mr. Khalil was unlawfully detained by ICE last week because of his pro-Palestine advocacy at Columbia University NEW YORK — In a fight to get recent Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil back to...
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