On Monday, April 7, 2008, Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute (HRI) and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) will co-host a conference, THE UNITED STATES AND THE INTER-AMERICAN...
Updated: April 1, 2008
Document Raises Questions About Escalating Government Surveillance and Criminalization of Black Activists March 19, 2018, New York, NY – Today, racial justice organizations filed a lawsuit against...
CCR hosts interns and fellows to build a new generation of lawyers and legal workers who will have the vision, expertise, and determination to create social change. CCR aims to support lawyers and...
Updated: September 27, 2017
September 6, 2016Ten years. It’s been exactly a decade since President George W. Bush announced on September 6, 2006 that 14 former CIA prisoners had been brought to Guantanamo. That was when we learned about the...
On March 2, 2015, CCR and Palestine Solidarity Legal Support (PSLS) sent a letter to University of Toledo President Nagi Naganathan, urging the University to comply with its obligations under the...
Updated: March 3, 2015
July 8, 2021This is the late Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights speaking in 2006. Michael Ratner : “One of our hopes is, really, we believe, and we have believed for 30 years, that torturers...
For Sunshine Week, Open Records Project Adds FOIA tools March 15, New York – Today, to mark Sunshine Week, the Center for Constitutional Rights unveiled two new resources to help activists access...
October 8, 2023...Advocacy groups like the Center for Constitutional Rights , CAGE , and the OHCHR have long campaigned to free Mingazov from detention and prevent his repatriation to Russia. Since 2021 ,...
Ashley Diamond is a Black trans woman and prisoners’ rights activist from Rome, Georgia, whose landmark lawsuit challenging the cruel and unusual treatment of incarcerated trans people by the Georgia...
Updated: March 7, 2023
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