November 22, 2016, New York – Today, in response to a submission by four Palestinian human rights groups to the International Criminal Court (ICC) urging the ICC prosecutor to open a formal...
J. Wells Dixon is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he specializes in challenging unlawful detentions at the Guantánamo prison. Wells represents clients in...
On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held a thematic hearing on the use of solitary confinement in the Americas. CCR submitted a written testimony before...
Updated: March 12, 2013
2009-04-06 Washington, D.C. – Today, lawyers for 17 Uighurs imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay asked the Supreme Court to recognize that the right to habeas corpus requires a remedy when a...
In this rare visit to the United States, leading Palestinian human rights defenders Raji Sourani and Shawan Jabarin will provide timely perspectives from the ground in Gaza and the dynamic situation...
Updated: April 11, 2016
September 2012The founder of WikiLeaks delivered an impassioned appeal Wednesday for the U.S. government to end its actions against him, his website and those who support it.
September 22, 2017Thirteen years after leaving Abu Ghraib prison, and nine years after filing suit in federal court, a group of former Iraqi detainees got to make the case before an Alexandria judge Friday that they...
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Jennie Green to speak at Rebellious Lawyering Conference, Yale Law School The African Public Interest Lawyer: Rebellious Lawyering on the Continent This panel will explore...
Updated: March 5, 2009
Join the Duke University School of Law on February 24 , at 12:30 p.m. EST , for the next event within the Human Rights in Practice series. The program features Center for Constitutional Rights...
Updated: February 21, 2025
On International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2018, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined with the Human Rights in the U.S. Project of the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute to submit...
Updated: November 18, 2019
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