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...
Join CCR President and Pittsburgh Law Professor Jules Lobel , CCR Deputy Legal Director Alexis Agathocleous , and other experts from a variety of disciplines and countries to talk about solitary...
Updated: March 31, 2016
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
Charging former Paraguayan official Americo Peña-Irala with the wrongful death of Joelito Filártiga. The suit pioneered the application of a previously little-used 1789 federal statute, the Alien...
Updated: January 3, 2019
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...
Challenging the government's decision authorizing the CIA and JSOC to target and kill Anwar Al-Aulaqi in Yemen.
Updated: August 30, 2021
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
A FOIA lawsuit seeking information regarding U.S. knowledge of, role in, and response to a deadly Israeli attack on a humanitarian flotilla to blockaded Gaza.
Updated: April 15, 2019
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...
"It has become our destiny now to die without being guilty of any wrongdoing, knowing that even death, which could relieve us from this injustice and this suffering, is unreachable to us. Here we are...
Updated: October 26, 2023
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