April 25, 2017Arkansas’ horror show continued last night with the first double execution carried out in the state since September 1999, of Jack Harold Jones and Marcel Williams. [1] No state had performed a double...
November 18, 2016Why would a Berlin-based European human rights organization celebrate CCR’s 50 years of work and dedicate an entire day of their conference to the legacy of Michael Ratner? Because for more than two...
CCR’s representation of Guantánamo prisoner and victim of CIA torture Majid Khan.
Updated: February 2, 2023
The Holy See claims that it is a sovereign state. It is governed as a monarchy with the Pope having "supreme, immediate and universal ordinary power." Given its tiny territorial state, its global...
Updated: September 22, 2015
Please join the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), First Peoples Disability Network (Australia), Disability Rights Fund, and Human Rights Watch for an interactive...
Updated: June 13, 2018
January 30, 2014, New York – After 14 years of litigation and decades of community action, plaintiffs’ counsel and Mayor Bill de Blasio reached an agreement which will result in the...
Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Act, which was signed into law by President Museveni on February 24, 2014, is a draconian law that has sparked global protest and outrage, including sanctions by...
Updated: April 9, 2014
July 12, 2012, Olympia, WA and New York, NY – Today, in a lawsuit brought against current and former members of the Olympia Food Co-op board of directors for their decision to boycott Israeli...
The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, the Center for...
Updated: November 16, 2021
On February 27, 2006, The first violation of the McCain torture amendment was alleged in federal court in an emergency injunction to end further torture of Guantánamo detainees. The court made public...
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