On April 28, 2016, CCR and Palestine Legal sent copies of their report, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the U.S. , to one hundred lawmakers in five states who were...
Updated: October 9, 2017
"It has become our destiny now to die without being guilty of any wrongdoing, knowing that even death, which could relieve us from this injustice and this suffering, is unreachable to us. Here we are...
Updated: October 26, 2023
ICE, like any other law enforcement agency, must have a judicial warrant in order to enter a home without consent. But they rarely do. In the absence of a judicial warrant authorizing entry, ICE agents have taken to gaining access to residences through deception, or a "ruse," a tactic that many courts have found to violate the Fourth Amendment. Yet ICE’s memoranda instructing agents about the use of ruses, issued in 2005 and 2006, do not acknowledge any constitutional limitations on the use of ruses, by implication permitting and encouraging agents to misrepresent themselves and their purpose.
Urgent Intervention Needed to Protect Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons from COVID-19 Exposure April 14, 2020 For the attention of: The International Committee of the Red Cross...
Updated: April 16, 2020
CCR helped organize a sign-on letter protesting a recent increase in forced evictions from Haiti's camps for Internally Displaced Persons. The letter, signed by lawyers, law professors, and human...
Updated: August 24, 2011
April 2009President Obama’s decision to make public four Bush-era memos authorizing “enhanced interrogation techniques” of terrorist suspects is now putting key Democrats on the spot, too. The top Republican...
"This report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard. And when we engaged in...
Updated: November 11, 2019
This is a public statement by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation...
June 1, 2010 - We, the undersigned organisations gathered in Kampala at the International Criminal Court (ICC) Review Conference, are shocked by Israel’s killing and injury of civilians...
On June 22, 2020, the Center for Constitutional Rights—along with a coalition of other civil rights organizations—released an open letter demanding that Colin Mattis and Urooj Rahman be released...
Updated: July 30, 2020
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