On February 13, 2018, CCR and 14 other organizations sent a memorandum to Missouri lawmakers opposing S.B. 849 and H.B. 2179, anti-boycott bills that would require any prospective state contractors...
Updated: February 21, 2018
October 21, 2016A lawsuit into a military contractor for their role in the torture at Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib, was reinstated Friday, with the court rejecting arguments from the contractors that its behavior...
AETA Denies Freedom of Speech and Due Process Say Attorneys May 9, 2016, Chicago – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the constitutionality of the federal Animal Enterprise...
"The memories of the Abu Ghraib detention center are imprinted in my imagination as a movie, playing every time I see images of a prison, or torture, or if I hear of violations of human rights...
Updated: April 10, 2024
On October 25, 2006, Emmanuel "Toto" Constant--the former leader of Haiti's notorious death squad known as FRAPH--was ordered to pay $15 million in punitive and $4 million in compensatory...
August 23, 2021We’re urging members of Congress to protect Cameroonian immigrants fleeing conflict We joined the Cameroon American Council and #CameroonTPS Coalition in sending a letter to members of Congress...
June 2, 2017CCR has long called for an end to the military commissions system at Guantánamo, a second-class system of justice designed to hide brutal torture committed by the U.S., and a proven failure,...
UPDATE: Vatican statement says "The Holy See does, however, regret to see in some points of the Concluding Observations an attempt to interfere with Catholic Church teaching on the dignity of...
Advocates for Descendants of Enslaved People are Trying to Prevent Construction of Massive Grain Terminal April 28, 2022, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana – Today, a district court judge...
July 2012New York City’s accelerating use of police stop-and-frisk tactics has brought a growing chorus of opponents who have been matched in intensity only by the officials who defend the policy. But...
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