August 2, 2016Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presumptive presidential nominee , has chosen human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate. Baraka was founding executive director of the U.S. Human Rights...
February 1, 2016Last month, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent conducted a fact-finding mission to the United States to document human rights violations against people of African descent in...
July 2009The settlement last week of claims that Shell was complicit in the executions of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other "Ogoni 9" in November 1995, as well as numerous other human rights violations,...
This submission is on behalf of the Immigrant Defense Project’s (IDP’s) Surveillance Tech and Immigration Policing project and the Center for Constitutional Rights, in response to the Office of High...
Updated: March 3, 2022
Vince Warren will discuss the work that he and the Center for Constitutional Rights has been conducting to promote and advance human rights, speciafically pertaining to Guantanamo detainees, CCR’s...
Updated: January 17, 2008
February 19, 2016Frank Mugisha is the executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda ( SMUG ), the plaintiff represented by CCR in their lawsuit against Scott Lively, a U.S.-based anti-gay extremist. Frank is here in...
Bill is Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a Katrina survivor and has been active in human rights in Haiti for years...
Updated: January 14, 2010
On April 7, 2021, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and a number of its member organizations—including the Center for Constitutional Rights—released a coalition letter urging World...
Updated: April 8, 2021
October 2012During oral arguments in the Center for Constitutional Rights’ lawsuit against the government seeking public access to basic court documents in Bradley Manning’s court-martial trial,...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain will speak as part of the Tea Project about the work of CCR representing men imprisoned at Guantánamo. Setting the stage for this event will be 779 cast...
Updated: June 1, 2016
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