January 11, 2017, New York – In advance of the Senate confirmation hearing scheduled tomorrow for Retired General James Mattis to be Secretary of Defense, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
June 2014By Laura Raymond, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights "I would like to recall the first US war in Iraq, in '91 at 2:30 a.m. when those bombs went down and they devastated...
FOIA lawsuit seeks records improperly withheld by U.S. government after it mistreated Black immigrants October 13, 2021, New York ‒ Civil rights organizations today filed a Freedom of Information Act...
Please join CCR, Witness Against Torture (WAT), the Peace Poets , and allies for a book launch and performance on the eve of the 16th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay. There...
Updated: November 29, 2017
January 29, 2009, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Washington College of Law filed the final brief in a civil...
August 7, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) responded today to a letter made public from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture to the American Psychological...
October 9, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
Deportations soared under Obama; Trump intensified oppression of immigrant communities. Advocates and organizers look to the Biden administration to reshape immigration policy, especially the...
Updated: September 24, 2021
New York and Washington, February 22, 2010 —New FOIA documents illustrate that key congressional members from both houses were briefed numerous times about the Central Intelligence Agency...
January 11, 2008 – On the sixth anniversary of the imprisonment of detainees at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today dismissed...
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