February 25, 2011, New York – In response to news that the full panel of Judges of the Audencia Nacional (Spain’s High Court) rejected a Spanish prosecutor’s effort to stop an...
CCR has a long history of challenging U.S. war-making and conflict-related human rights violations, both before and since the creation of the war-on-terror narrative. In the 1970s, we pioneered the...
Updated: August 7, 2018
In April 2014, hundreds of documents detailing the process for designating and keeping prisoners in Federal Bureau of Prisons Communications Management Units (CMUs) were made public for the first...
Updated: August 7, 2014
August 6, 2009, Washington, DC – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Font & Glazer, Citizen Soldier, and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark filed an appeal with the...
July 10, 2018“[It’s] like we’re buried alive.” That’s how CCR client Sharqawi Al Hajj describes his imprisonment at Guantánamo, as a cemetery. Before he was brought to the island prison, Sharqawi was disappeared...
Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow, Lupe Aguirre , will testify before the New York Senate Standing Committee on Codes Public Hearing on Civil Rights Law 50-a. 50-a is a...
Updated: October 17, 2019
This is a temporary, short-term position providing coverage for a staff member going on leave. The position will be for 15 hours a week for 3 months. The time period, August 9 to October 29, 2021,...
Updated: July 13, 2021
Paris, New York, June 12, 2008 – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today submitted a letter on the plight of former Guantánamo and Bagram prisoners in Afghanistan to foreign government...
February 12, 2009, New York – In a USA Today Gallup poll released today, two-thirds of Americans say they want investigations into the role of Bush administration officials in torture and...
November 1, 2023...The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), founded in 1966 to provide legal support for the civil rights movement, published an emergency briefing paper to coincide with President Joe Biden’s...
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