December 29, 2016Whether it’s taking on the federal government, powerful corporations, or the NYPD, CCR never backs down from a fight when marginalized communities and individuals have suffered injustice. And we don’...
Rights Groups Move to Stop Private Corporations from Intervening in Freedom of Information Lawsuit November 29, 2016, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Detention Watch...
"The memories of the Abu Ghraib detention center are imprinted in my imagination as a movie, playing every time I see images of a prison, or torture, or if I hear of violations of human rights...
Updated: April 10, 2024
Demands Independent U.N. Investigation June 6, 2019, New York – Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a complaint with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of...
April 23, 2014, Washington D.C. – For the first time, hundreds of documents detailing the Bureau of Prisons’ process for designating prisoners to controversial Communications Management...
October 22, 2018VICTORY: Immigrant father and two-year-old son released from detention and reunited! The Center for Constitutional Rights celebrated an incredible victory last week after a federal judge ordered the...
June 2, 2017CCR has long called for an end to the military commissions system at Guantánamo, a second-class system of justice designed to hide brutal torture committed by the U.S., and a proven failure,...
On Tuesday, February 15, join CODEPINK Congress & Massachusetts Peace Action for the second event in their Special Series on Foreign Policy!
Updated: February 22, 2022
Prosecutor Seeks to Move Forward With Investigation Against Only Taliban, Islamic State-Khorasan Province September 27, 2021—Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan of the International Criminal Court (ICC) this...
March 15, 2019, New York – In response to the Mosque shootings in New Zealand, the Center for Constitutional Rights made the following statement: We are mourning today with Muslim communities in...
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