The US Human Rights Network’s 2017 national conference will be a space for collective healing, reflection, and cooperative strategy. In 2017, a new federal administration rose to power using...
Updated: November 21, 2017
Artwork by Shereen Masoud-Jointe "Solitary confinement has destroyed me...It was like a huge mountain that was on top of me. And the pressure on me was so high it squeezed tears out of my eyes...I...
Updated: April 4, 2022
An important oral argument is taking place on June 17, 2003 before the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California concerning the legal status of the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) in Doe v...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) on Wednesday, January 24, from 6:45 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) / 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m...
Updated: January 23, 2024
February 26, 2021Dear Friend, The Center for Constitutional Rights entered Black History Month with the purpose of paying tribute to the living legacy of Black freedom fighters, organizers, and artists who have...
On the seventh episode of The Activist Files, your frequent host Senior Legal Worker Ian Head is joined by CCR Communications Director Chandra Hayslett to interview Jaribu Hill, a civil and human...
Updated: March 7, 2023
Guantanamo habeas petition in D.C. District Court, and human rights petition and request for precautionary measures before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (“IACHR”) for Djamel Ameziane
Updated: May 27, 2020
June 27, 2016Tomorrow, June 28, 2016, marks seven years since the coup d’etat in Honduras – the day that former President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by the Honduran army and then flown out of the country from an...
Join us on May 30th for JUSTICE BEATS : a virtual music festival to benefit communities in urgent need. All day we will be amplifying musicians, DJs, and other artists working to support their...
Updated: May 22, 2020
October 31, 2016This post originally appeared on the Open Society Foundations website . “It is beyond the power of even the president to declare [torture] lawful,” wrote Judge Henry Floyd on October 21. These words...
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