In recognition of Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Center for Constitutional Rights offers the following statement of solidarity: We stand in solidarity and celebrate with...
July 2008As Emmanuel (Toto) Constant's trial begins for mortgage fraud, Danny Glover makes the connection to the work the Center for Constitutional Rights has also done against Constant for his human rights...
Mijente, the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), CUNY Law School’s Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic (HRGJ) and the Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...
Updated: January 17, 2024
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights on Thursday, April 7th for an informative presentation and book signing for “Queer (In)Justice featuring opening remarks by CCR Executive...
Updated: April 7, 2011
CCR joined a coalition of 350 local, state, and national immigrant, civil rights, human rights, faith-based, and anti-poverty organizations to urge Congress to oppose the Criminal Alien Gang Member...
Updated: September 13, 2017
Legal Analysis: Boumediene v. Bush/Al Odah v. United States In February 2002, the Center for Constitutional Rights and our co-counsel brought the first habeas case in federal court on behalf of...
Updated: January 11, 2010
December 2007The Supreme Court on Wednesday will take another shot at resolving some of the questions surrounding the prison camp, which for many critics has become an international symbol of unchecked executive...
July 1, 2022...The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and Paris-based human rights federation FIDH told the court’s chief prosecutor that Hammouri’s case is a “stark example and a warning of new...
Todd v. Panjaitan is a case filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in 1994 which charged Indonesian General Sinton Pangaitan with human rights abuses. In September 1992, CCR filed a...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Astha Sharma Pokharel is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she specializes in international human rights and in challenging racial and environmental injustice, abusive...
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