CCR will co-sponsor a panel discussion with the Metropolitan New York Religious Campaign Against Torture about Solitary Confinement: New York's Hidden Problem on Wednesday, October 17th at 6:30 p.m...
Updated: October 9, 2012
Time: 5:30-7:30pm , Join CCR Staff Attorney Maria LaHood for a panel about CCR’s efforts to secure accountability for torture by the U.S. government and private military contractors. Speakers...
Updated: September 16, 2010
New members bolster our engagement at the intersections of technology, structural racism, and law enforcement January 28 , 2020, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights is happy to...
November 2014“We tortured some folks,” President Obama said recently. I was one of those folks, and today I am at the United Nations to confront the government responsible for torturing me. It is the first time...
On April 8, 2010, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Alliance for Justice; American Civil Liberties Union; Amnesty International USA; Government Accountability Project; Japanese...
June 16, 2016On Monday night, friends, family, colleagues, and clients gathered to remember CCR's late president emeritus Michael Ratner. Many of them touched on Michael's and CCR's guiding belief of success...
Anser Mehmood is a plaintiff in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up in connection with...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Since the beginning of Israel’s military assault on Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers, prominent scholars, lawyers, members of the media, and...
Updated: December 4, 2023
December 11, 2008, New York – Today, Portuguese Foreign Minister Luis Amado said that Portugal is willing to accept Guantanamo detainees who cannot return to their home countries, and urged other...
Rooted in racism, decades-long crisis caused by chronic neglect harms tens of thousands in predominantly Black city August 10, 2023, Jackson, MS – Yesterday, grassroots organizations representing...
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