November 16, 2023...Katherine Gallagher, a senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the U.S. has a clear and binding obligation to prevent genocide under Article 1 of the Genocide Convention,...
Attorneys: Obama must follow through promptly with release August 11, 2016, Arlington, VA – Today, a Periodic Review Board (PRB) made public its decision to clear Guantánamo detainee Sufyian Barhoumi...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture , and the Tea Project for a night of tea, art, poetry, music, and words by artists, activists, and leaders in the movements to end...
Updated: January 3, 2017
Resistance is key when state and religious actors escalate their efforts to deprive lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people of basic human rights. Please join CCR and Sexual...
Updated: October 25, 2016
March 28, 2013 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and other civil rights organizations wrote to administrators at the Claremont Colleges in southern California to express concerns about...
Updated: April 2, 2013
November 19, 2019, New York – In response to the Trump Administration’s announcement that it will reject well established, clear and unambiguous international legal standards recognizing the...
December 1, 2010, New York - Today, CCR sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders to ask her to investigate the case of the shack...
In 2021, the Northwestern University Law Review published "Redeeming Justice," authored by Professor Rachel Lopez (Drexel Kline Law), Terrell Carter, and Ghani Songster. Drawing from human...
Updated: February 10, 2023
August 2, 2016Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presumptive presidential nominee , has chosen human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate. Baraka was founding executive director of the U.S. Human Rights...
February 1, 2016Last month, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent conducted a fact-finding mission to the United States to document human rights violations against people of African descent in...
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