March 8, 2016The Israeli government is seeking immunity for former Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak in a civil lawsuit filed last October by the parents of Furkan Doğan , an American teenager killed on May...
Steven Salaita Steven Salaita is a Palestinian-American scholar and author of several books, including Israel’s Dead Soul , Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom , and Inter/...
Updated: September 14, 2018
Date: Wednesday 7 July 2010 On the occasion of the launch of FIDH’s guidebook “Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses: A guide for Victims and NGOs on Recourse Mechanisms...
Updated: July 6, 2010
CCR and Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute invite you to join us for this important discussion. The program will focus on the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) as a tool for seeking accountability for...
Updated: April 17, 2014
April 20, 2013, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Executive Director Vincent Warren released the following statement in response to the news that the government had...
September 1, 2015The nationwide movement to end solitary confinement is growing – even attracting the attention of a Supreme Court justice – and today it took a significant step forward. CCR and the State of...
Guled Hassan Duran is a Somali citizen who was captured in Djibouti and rendered to the CIA in March 2004, and who has been detained without charge at Guantánamo since September 2006.
Updated: May 5, 2026
February 2009The Pentagon official who inspected the Guantánamo Bay prison at the behest of President Obama and declared its conditions humane described himself Monday as a “fresh set of eyes” who had been given...
Social justice is a “we” thing, not an “I” thing. Whether it’s a demonstration, a letter to Congress, a social media campaign or a letter to the editor, it’s the active involvement of thousands of...
Updated: June 22, 2026
August 10, 2017Two weeks ago, on the 102nd anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, I attended the Black Alliance for Just Immigration’s (BAJI) Black-centered delegation to the U.S. Southern border in San Diego,...
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