March 21, 2023Twenty years after the U.S. government invaded Iraq, we renew our call for reparations
Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, in WHO WE ARE , criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in...
Updated: January 11, 2022
November 11, 2019We denounce Israel's decision to deport Human Rights Watch director Omar Shakir In response to Israel’s Supreme Court decision upholding the order for human rights defender Omar Shakir, of Human...
January 11, 2018This morning, CCR filed the first major legal challenge to Trump’s Guantánamo policy, which we announced at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. A rally outside the White...
September 2, 2021For the last twenty years, the Center for Constitutional Rights has stood alongside our courageous clients and their supporting communities, activists, storytellers, and a broad cadre of other...
The overlapping crises facing our global community are the result of generations of political decisions. And while we must collectively uproot oppressive ideologies and institutions, President Joe...
Updated: September 8, 2021
December 11, 2020...And this wouldn't be as polarizing as one might think. Four states — Maine , New York , Vermont and Massachusetts — along with Washington, DC , have already proposed decriminalization legislation...
August 6, 2015Every four years, the U.N. Human Rights Committee evaluates whether a government is in compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and is following previous...
October 15, 2009, Baton Rouge and New York – Today, attorneys filed an appeal before the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal, in the case Dr. Trudy Bond v. Louisiana State Board of...
July 21, 2017Omar Khadr should have never been brought to Guantánamo. At 15 years old, he was just a child when he was captured, and his 10-year detention, prosecution for purported war crimes, and torture by the...
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