November 14, 2012, Vancouver and New York — Today, four torture survivors filed a complaint against Canada with the United Nations Committee against Torture for the country’s failure to...
New York, December 17, 2011— This morning, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), representing Julian Assange, publisher of the WikiLeaks media organization, appealed a military court...
October 26, 2020We're urging SCOTUS to hold U.S. corporatoins liable for international violations On Wednesday, we joined 15 international human rights organizations and submitted a brief to the United States...
April 1, 2019"The Women of Cancer Alley" - A Freedom Flicks screening [caption align="right"] [/caption] On April 18, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Louisiana Bucket Brigade will be hosting a short-film...
January 20, 2016Bobby James Moore was sentenced to death by the State of Texas in 1980, when he was 20 years old. He has spent three and a half decades on death row, and the last fifteen years in solitary...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to co-host this book launch and conversation with the Weinberg/Newton Gallery and Human Rights Watch on International Human Rights Day. The event is in...
Updated: December 5, 2022
Periodically, we gather significant developments and updates from the Center for Constitutional Rights in a concise newsletter that can bring a reader up to speed on work around all of our cases and...
Updated: March 15, 2023
August 6, 2008, Washington D.C. – Today, Djamel Ameziane filed the first ever petition by a person detained by the United States at Guantánamo Bay with the Inter-American Commission on...
LITIGATION Al Shimari v. CACI is a federal lawsuit brought by four Iraqi torture victims against private US-based contractor CACI International Inc., and CACI Premier Technology, Inc. It asserts that...
Updated: March 7, 2013
January 11, 2024, marks 22 years since the Guantánamo Bay prison has been open. Thirty Muslim men remain detained, including 16 who have been cleared for release. The Center for Constitutional...
Updated: December 26, 2023
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