February 21, 2012, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) requested that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) open an immediate criminal investigation into claims of...
11 a.m.- 12:40 p.m. – Taxi to the Darkside, the Oscar-nominated (2008) documentary, an "in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay,...
Updated: February 14, 2008
The Center for Constitutional Rights seeks experienced second- or third-year law students or LLM students with a strong commitment to social justice to provide legal research and analysis as part of...
Updated: September 10, 2025
August 2, 2023...Over 150 organizations, including the Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce, the American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Constitutional Rights, #HALTsolitary Campaign, National Alliance on Mental...
Join CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy and co-counsel Jeena Shah for a discussion of our Al Shimari case and CCR’s history challenging corporate immunity and seeking justice for torture. Discussion...
Updated: March 31, 2015
July 22, 2016Tomorrow, the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend in their cells in the SHU, activists throughout California will take action to bring attention to prison conditions...
Where is the world to save us from torture? Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness? – Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif Twenty years after the opening of Guantánamo , Adnan's questions remain...
Updated: February 2, 2022
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will present at the 19th Annual NACOLE conference in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 24th. Since 1995, NACOLE has been bringing together individuals and...
Updated: September 18, 2013
On the 11th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqi civil society leaders and U.S. military veterans will testify to the lasting impact of the war and make the case that the U.S. government...
Updated: March 17, 2014
Actions on U.S. torture brought in Spain under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 13, 2019
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