September 26, 2016The United Nations Human Rights Council is underway in Geneva, with diplomats and experts covering such important topics as the rights of indigenous peoples, enforced disappearance, and the critical...
May 20, 2022... The idea of litigation as recovery was raised again by a West Coast-based therapist, Gerald Gray, who had been counseling survivors of political torture. Gray had attended a talk by a human...
Habeas corpus petition on behalf of Tariq Ba Odah, a cleared Yemeni man who was detained at Guantánamo without charge from 2002 - 2016.
Updated: March 2, 2017
Berlin, November 10, 2008 -- Five leading human rights groups today call on European governments to provide humanitarian protection to Guantánamo detainees who will not be charged with any crime but...
June 10, 2015Earlier this month, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with other nationally prominent human rights groups, including the ACLU, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch, filed an amicus...
Center for Constitutional Rights is accompanying three delegations, joining dozens of U.S. civil society orgs in calling for accountability October 12, 2023, Geneva – For the first time in nine years...
Since the first detainees were brought to the offshore prison at Guantánamo Bay in January 2002, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and allies have been advocating on behalf of detainees...
Updated: September 8, 2021
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to highlight the issues we work on and draw attention to the experiences of those most...
Updated: April 28, 2023
Although President Obama ended the U.S. torture program, there have been no prosecutions or accountability within the U.S. Now with the incoming Trump administration, there is the real danger that...
Updated: January 20, 2017
July 13, 2020On July 8th, the Abolitionist Law Center, Amistad Law Project, and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, seeking to abolish the states’s cruel mandatory Life Without...
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