January 12, 2018I represent one of the last remaining detainees in Guantánamo, Sharqawi Al Hajj, a 43-year-old man from Yemen whom the United States has been holding without charge for over 15 years and plans to...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by...
Updated: July 21, 2016
January 28, 2021[caption align="right"] Speakers discuss Death by Incarceration at " Brick by Brick: A community forum on ending Death By Incarceration in Pennsylvania" [/caption] On January 26, Abolitionist Law...
July 12, 2017Immigration advocates and lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, arguing that CBP officers at crossings...
Join us for the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USPCR) Seize the Moment, the 2023 USCPR National Conference in Houston, TX, Friday October 27 - Sunday October 29, 2023, to mobilize for liberation...
Updated: October 25, 2023
Since at least 1998, U.S. immigration authorities have used dental radiographs in their process for determining the age of migrants even though the technique has been widely discredited. Further,...
Updated: November 14, 2025
CCR will join a panel with The Columbia Center for Oral History (CCOH) at a two-day conference exploring the role of oral history in documenting, disseminating and educating students and the public...
Updated: April 26, 2013
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights to celebrate the publication of the new book by former Guantanamo detainee Murat Kurnaz. In October 2001, nineteen year old Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen...
Updated: March 31, 2008
This month, as part of our Freedom Flicks monthly series, the Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights invites you to a free screening of If a Tree Falls: A Story of the...
Updated: August 19, 2015
December 22, 2020, New York — The Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal put out the following statement in response to the New York appellate division's decision today in Awad v...
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