March 19, 2021, New York – On the 18th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Eighteen years after the United States invaded...
May 1, 2013, New York – Today, special rapporteurs from the United Nations and the Organization of American States’ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a joint...
January 9, 2008, New York, NY – Today, Haitian former paramilitary leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant rejected a plea bargain that would have given him a prison sentence of three to nine years in a...
Please join The Bronx Defenders and the US Human Rights Network as we continue our Human Rights Series of webinars on Tuesday, October 19, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET. This edition is titled,...
Updated: October 19, 2021
Cites Weaponization of “Terrorism” as Tool of Oppressive Regimes Throughout History October 22, 2021, New York – Following the announcement that the Israeli government had designated six human rights...
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, we have taken on...
Updated: October 18, 2018
May 19, 2008, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) served a subpoena on the RAND Corporation as part of CCR’s racial profiling lawsuit against the New York City Police...
April 19, 2023The ruling brings the state into line with the Supreme Court’s landmark 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas
On April 22, 2009, the Senate Armed Services Committee issued the declassified version of its full report on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody, particularly in Guantanamo, Iraq and...
December 15, 2008, Washington, D.C. – In Rasul v. Myers, the first case to challenge torture and violations of religious freedom at Guantánamo, the U.S. Supreme Court today granted certiorari,...
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