April 10, 2008, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement on the accountability of top Bush administration officials for the U.S. government...
Bottom Line President Obama’s proposed plan is too little, too late. First, the president’s plan cannot achieve the fundamental goal of ending indefinite detention without trial because central to...
Updated: February 23, 2016
A challenge on behalf of landowners in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company’s (BBP) eminent domain lawsuit.
Updated: March 7, 2023
June 20, 2016Lawyer, professor, and writer Jonathan Hafetz shares his memories of late CCR President Emeritus Michael Ratner and the enduring mission of efforts to close Guantánamo, which is further explored in...
The Immigrant Defense Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and Haymarket Books are proud to present “The Next 20 Years: Building towards a demilitarized and decolonized future of safety for...
Updated: December 8, 2021
Paris, New York, June 12, 2008 – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today submitted a letter on the plight of former Guantánamo and Bagram prisoners in Afghanistan to foreign government...
February 11, 2020Introduction by Laura Magnani, American Friends Service Committee What follows below is an update from the leadership of the 2011 and 2013 California Prison Hunger Strikes against indefinite solitary...
September 13, 2012, New York - Since the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) filed a formal request for an investigation one year ago to the...
Closing Remarks at Protest by Leili Kashani, Advocacy Program Manager, Center for Constitutional Rights Almost exactly four months ago today, a young Yemeni man cruelly detained for more than ten...
Updated: January 16, 2013
As lawyers and advocates who are accountable to the intergenerational Black freedom struggle, the Center for Constitutional Rights has for Black people to reject the inhumanity of human hierarchy,...
Updated: February 18, 2022
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