August 3, 2018, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was granted official special consultative status last week with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC...
November 2013By Pamela Spees, Senior Attorney with the CCR who has filed cases in the U.S. related to the 2009 Honduras coup. Pick up any U.S. newspaper next Monday morning, and the international page will...
10 Years Ago this Week, We Went to Court to Expose the Racism of the NYPD
Updated: March 17, 2023
November 15, 2016A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by 4 former detainees of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison thanks in part to Rutgers Law School professor Jeena Shah who played a key role in reviving...
CCR joined a coalition letter addressed to President Obama on December 20, 2016. The letter, coordinated by Grassroots Leadership, outlines key steps to dismantle some of the detention and...
Updated: December 21, 2016
September 1, 2016Today marks the one-year anniversary of the historic settlement in the federal class action lawsuit Ashker v. Governor of California . The case was filed in 2012 on behalf of prisoners in solitary...
We honor Juneteenth—the celebration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States—by envisioning a world freer than the one in which we currently live. Each year since the June 19, 1865 reading...
Updated: June 17, 2020
January 20, 2022In the name of our clients still there, we call on President Biden to fulfill his pledge to shut it down
Kabul, New York, Paris, The Hague, 20 November 2018 - Today marks one year since the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) sought authorisationto open an investigation into war crimes...
November 25, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, Beldock, Levine & Hoffman and Covington & Burling, urged the Second Circuit Court of...
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