June 5, 2020...Katherine Gallagher, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, ended the hearing that saw the appeals chamber allow the investigation to proceed. “In the case of U.S. torture...
January 11, 2018...“It’s clear that a man who thinks we should water-board terror suspects even if it doesn’t work, because ‘they deserve it, anyway,’ has no qualms about keeping every last detainee in Guantánamo,...
For the past two decades, human rights advocates in Afghanistan and abroad have called for all perpetrators of human rights abuses in the country to be held accountable. Yet the collapse of the...
Updated: March 30, 2022
CCR is proud to announce Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher will present on a panel at the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights titled Access to Judicial Remedy. This panel seeks...
Updated: November 30, 2012
Please join event sponsor Call to Action - New York and Alex Gibney on April 11th to support the important work of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) . There will be an evening...
Updated: March 22, 2013
December 2014"The Justice Department's decision Tuesday not to re-open a criminal investigation into the CIA's treatment of detainees immediately prompted a renewed debate about how those responsible for the...
When the New York Times broke the story of the original NSA warrantless surveillance program in December of 2005, CCR’s legal staff realized that many of our international communications in the...
Updated: September 24, 2012
April 17, 2024...“This is a historic trial that we hope will deliver some measure of justice and healing for what President Bush rightly deemed disgraceful conduct that dishonored the United States and its values...
On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court announced that it would not be hearing the cases of the Guantánamo detainees for the time being. The Court denied the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co...
The Center for Constitutional Rights submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to take on the case of Mohamed Osman Mohamud. Mohamud v. United States is one of the first...
Updated: August 16, 2017
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