September 11, 2014, Urbana-Champaign, IL – Prof. Steven Salaita and his attorneys responded today to the announcement that the Board of Trustees voted to terminate him from a tenured position...
In the aftermath of the June 28, 2009 coup d’etat in Honduras, the Organization of American States (OAS) designated then-Costa Rican President Oscar Arias as mediator between the coup regime...
Updated: March 22, 2011
Haiti: Law in the Time of Cholera UN Peacekeeping, Cholera and Human Rights A Discussion – Monday, April 9 th , 1pm – 2.45pm (A light lunch will be served / Please RSVP to rsvp@...
Updated: April 2, 2012
March 19, 2018CCR Calls for Iraq Reparations on 15th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion Today is the 15 th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has challenged U.S...
UPDATE: Please note this event has been sold out. To put your name on the waitlist, email
[email protected] or call 212-925-1806. CCR is co-sponsoring this important event focusing on U.S...
Updated: January 24, 2013
The Alien Tort Statute (ATS), also known as the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), is a powerful legal tool that allows foreign victims of human rights abuse to seek civil remedies in U.S. courts. It has...
Updated: September 24, 2012
September 21, 2020FILED: New FOIA requests info on Thomson Reuters, RELX Group contracts with ICE Last week, Mijente, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), CUNY Law School’s Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic (HRGJ...
Gitanjali Gutierrez, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who was the first habeas corpus lawyer to travel to Guantanamo, wrote this op-ed in The Washington Post on CCR client...
September 2011The international tribunals at The Hague is being asked to investigate top Vatican officials over the global clerical sex abuse scandal, and victims say these offenses meet the legal definition of...
January 19, New York – Today, the Periodic Review Board (PRB) announced its decision to approve Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) client Zahir Hamdoun for transfer from Guantánamo. Mr. Hamdoun,...
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