April 13, New York – In response to the Trump administration dropping the 21,600-pound GBU-43/B bomb in Afghanistan, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Not even 100...
Our May 4 vigil is co-sponsored by the Prison Watch, Healing Justice and Immigrant Rights Programs of the American Friends Service Committee. We will be focusing on the issues of solitary confinement...
Updated: April 23, 2015
NY’s Rockefeller Drug War: The Human and Fiscal Price We All Pay Time: 6:30 pm (doors open); 7:00 pm Program Cost: Free! Attendees will learn about the impact of the harsh, ineffective, and racially...
Updated: March 5, 2009
August 22, 2017, New York – In response to Trump’s address on Afghanistan last night, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Donald Trump’s remarks on Afghanistan...
Please join us on President's Day for a special Freedom Flicks screening of the Academy Award-nominated film SPOTLIGHT , followed by a short program and Q&A with honored guest Phil...
Updated: February 8, 2016
August 6, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), one of seven signatories to a letter sent yesterday to Janet Napolitano, Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security...
Survivors and human rights advocates are in Geneva for the January 16th Committee on the Rights of the Child review of the Holy See’s treaty compliance. Please join the Survivors Network of...
Updated: January 14, 2014
September 29, 2017The detention of an unnamed U.S. citizen held by the military as an enemy combatant is increasingly a legal and human-rights emergency, national security lawyers and civil libertarian activists say—...
January 25, 2016Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) Abdul-Ali (aka Avon Twitty) was a plaintiff in Aref v. Holder , CCR’s federal lawsuit challenging policies and practices at the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP’s)...
The case against the LA 8 began in January 1987, when the government arrested two immigrants and six others who became known as the LA 8. The government placed them in a maximum security prison, and...
Updated: November 28, 2007
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