September 1, 2015California authorities have agreed to sharply limit the number of inmates held in isolation for long periods of time, a major development in the national debate about solitary confinement. The...
October 20, 2016, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law (“Case Western Reserve”)...
September 6, 2021...The Center for Constitutional Rights courageously challenged the detentions of “enemy combatants” at Guántanamo Bay. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International argued for accountability for...
February 4, 2011, Miami, FL and Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to an emergency petition filed on January 6, 2011 by six rights groups, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (...
The Center for Constitutional Rights deeply mourns the untimely loss of our beloved Board Chair and former Executive Director Gregory H. Finger. Greg, a longtime social justice organizer and activist...
Updated: February 3, 2011
March 2014The Bush administration’s plan to invade Iraq spurred the largest outcry and anti-war protests in the history of the world. More than ten years and hundreds of thousands of lives later, U.S. veterans...
August 20, 2021, (Washington, D.C., New York) -- The Cameroon American Council, #CameroonTPS Coalition, and the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter yesterday to members of Congress urging...
Ruhan Nagra is a Bertha Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she focuses on corporate human rights abuses, LGBTQ persecution, Palestinian human rights violations, and torture and...
May 24, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted an important exhibit with a brief to the Supreme Court in the case of Canadian citizen and rendition victim...
July 26, 2023..."The United States has a moral and legal obligation to ensure that its military funding is not used to support actions that violate international humanitarian or human rights law," said the letter...
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