CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will join a conversation between Palestinian civil society leaders and scholars about the impact of state violence in Palestine and the U.S. Panelists will discuss...
Updated: April 4, 2016
July 21, 2011, New York, Jerusalem – Forty-five prominent Palestinians from Jerusalem and Israel, including Christian and Muslim religious figures, politicians, businesspeople and civil society...
October 3, 2017Donald Trump has rightly drawn condemnation for his repeated threats to reinstate waterboarding and other forms of torture. But under a little-reported program, “ Special Administrative Measures ” (...
Since the first detainees were brought to the offshore prison at Guantánamo Bay in January 2002, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and allies have been advocating on behalf of detainees...
Updated: September 8, 2021
June 10, 2015Earlier this month, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with other nationally prominent human rights groups, including the ACLU, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch, filed an amicus...
Berlin, November 10, 2008 -- Five leading human rights groups today call on European governments to provide humanitarian protection to Guantánamo detainees who will not be charged with any crime but...
The Center for Constitutional Rights has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to highlight the issues we work on and draw attention to the experiences of those most...
Updated: April 28, 2023
May 20, 2022... The idea of litigation as recovery was raised again by a West Coast-based therapist, Gerald Gray, who had been counseling survivors of political torture. Gray had attended a talk by a human...
New York, NY – Late last week, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) released more than 3,000 pages of documents concerning its investigation into the deaths of three detainees at...
Sanchez-Espinosa v. Reagan is a case that challenged U.S. officials’ support for murder, rape, and other torture in Nicaragua. In May 1984, while the International Court of Justice was issuing a...
Updated: July 31, 2018
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