May 5, 2016On May 4, 2016, CCR bestowed the Founders Award on Jules Lobel, our passionate cooperating attorney, board member since 1986, and current board president. Jules is the Bessie McKee Walthour Endowed...
July 2008A video of the interrogation of Omar Khadr is released, and the Center for Constitutional Rights comments on how it reflects on the Guantanamo system as a major human rights violation. You can access...
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, we have taken on...
Updated: April 30, 2019
October 2006The Institute for Policy Studies in D.C. gives New York's Center for Constitutional Rights and its client, Maher Arar, international human rights awards.
January 5, 2011, New York and Phoenix – Attorneys representing lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) were in court late yesterday seeking...
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on November 4th. We will discuss how our clients, held in solitary for decades, reached a landmark settlement in Ashker v. Governor of California that will end...
Updated: November 5, 2015
July 8, 2017The Trump administration appears to be making its first moves toward fulfilling a campaign promise to fill the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with “bad dudes.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy...
Join former Olympia Food Co-op board members in court as they continue to defend against a case challenging the Co-op's 2010 boycott of Israeli products, a decision in line with the Co-op's...
Updated: August 12, 2019
Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue this is...
Updated: June 23, 2010
November 4, 2011, New York, NY – Today, amidst reports that the Israeli navy has intercepted the Freedom Waves Flotilla in international waters and boarded two boats attempting to deliver...
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