From the stylings of Grand Master Flash to Public Enemy, Hip Hop has a long tradition of being used as a form a political speech and resistance. On Thursday August 21 st the Bertha Justice Institute...
Updated: August 13, 2014
Join North Carolina Stop Torture Now (NCSTN) as they confront Aero Contractors, the CIA's not-so-secret "torture flight" service, in their own backyard. Time 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM Aero...
Updated: October 18, 2007
September 2008"Torture does not begin in some remote, dark, subterranean cell, where prisoners are hooded and interrogators are masked. Torture emerges from fear clouding vision and it begins on paper, with...
The Center for Constitutional Rights and Physicians for Human Rights present a panel discussion, featuring: Richard N. Gottfried, NY State Assemblymember (D-75th Dist.) & Chair, NYS Assembly...
Updated: June 22, 2011
On September 8, CCR board chair Katherine Franke testified on behalf of CCR in front of the New York City Council Committee on Contracts regarding Resolution No. 1058-A , which unfairly condemns the...
Updated: September 15, 2016
September 1, 2016Today marks the one-year anniversary of the historic settlement in the federal class action lawsuit Ashker v. Governor of California . The case was filed in 2012 on behalf of prisoners in solitary...
January 11, 2017, New York – In advance of the Senate confirmation hearing scheduled tomorrow for Retired General James Mattis to be Secretary of Defense, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)...
April 2014One year ago Thursday, in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court interjected uncertainty into otherwise well-settled law relating to the reach of the U.S. Alien Tort Statute...
6:30 PM The Peace and Justice Task Force Invites you to a Panel Discussion: U.S.-sponsored Torture, Prisoners’ Rights, and Survivor Care Four distinguished panelists across professions will address...
Updated: October 6, 2008
January 10, 2013, New York – In response to today’s announcement that Zero Dark Thirty has been nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Center for Constitutional Rights...
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