Today is the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in CCR’s case Rasul v. Bush , in which the Court held that men held in Guantánamo had a right to challenge the legality of their...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to be a member of the Federal Anti-Solitary Taskforce (FAST): join FAST, the National Immigration Project, and the National Immigrant Justice Center on...
January 14, 2009, Washington, D.C. – A summit of major human rights groups met today to set a human rights agenda for advocates and government for the first 100 days of the Obama administration and...
Twelve years after horrific photos surfaced of U.S. soldiers torturing Iraqi civilians at Abu Ghraib prison, torture remains headline news. Disturbingly, the focus of this public conversation has...
December 5, 2014, New York – In response to reports that Palestinian-American activist Rasmea Odeh has been held in solitary confinement in a Michigan jail for twelve days, the Center for...
CCR is joining a coalition of groups in a Week of Action beginning today in support of the Divest from the War Machine campaign . The campaign calls on individuals and institutions to divest from...