October 1, 2012, Washington D.C. – Today, as the Supreme Court opened its term with oral argument in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum , Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director...
Return to Case Page- Al Odah v. U.S. Brief Amicus Curiae of the American Civil Liberties Union and Public Justice In Support of Petitioners Brief Amicus Curiae of Retired Military Officers in Support...
Updated: October 22, 2010
September 22, 2015Pope Francis is visiting the U.S. this week, including a stop at the United Nations in New York on Friday. He has been roundly praised for his pronouncements on climate change , economic inequality...
Guantánamo and Beyond:The Supreme Court and the Future of Executive Detention Time: 7:00pm-10:00pm Emi MacLean, Staff Attorney with CCR’s Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative, will speak about June’s...
Updated: September 2, 2008
January 7, 2011, Madrid, Spain – Today, the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) asked a Spanish Judge to...
December 3, 2021... “It’s not part of the ‘punishment,’ for people who are serving time, to be sexually abused, harassed and assaulted, day in and day out,” says Chinyere Ezie, a senior attorney at the Center for...
Wright v. Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, et al. is a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), together with attorneys from the National Conference of...
Updated: December 11, 2007
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to collaborate with the Depaul Art Museum (DPAM) and the Tea Project on Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guant...
Updated: January 5, 2022
December 16, 2021While it might be easy to assume the remaining men are the most difficult cases who cannot be sent anywhere, that is far from true.
On February 23, 2006, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to news reports confirming further abuse of prisoners at Guantánamo. CCR leads a team of...
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