February 2015The first terrorism conviction before a U.S. military court at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has been reversed. In 2007, Australian David Hicks, who spent almost six years at the base's controversial prison...
#Law4BlackLives was a national gathering of over 1000 lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers committed to building a world where #BlackLivesMatter. More than a meeting or a...
Updated: January 26, 2016
As President Biden visited Israel, and the Palestinian death toll in Gaza passed 3,300, the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights released a legal and factual analysis of Israel’s unfolding...
Updated: June 11, 2025
Since 1974, the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook has supported people who are incarcerated, their families, and advocates in challenging mistreatment and abuse in prisons. The Center for Constitutional...
Updated: August 23, 2021
May 8, 2019...Awad applied for club status in November 2015, but he and other students faced delays and questioning about their politics, including their use of the term “apartheid” and support for a boycott...
Please join the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), First Peoples Disability Network (Australia), Disability Rights Fund, and Human Rights Watch for an interactive...
Updated: June 13, 2018
April 29, 2020... Ending the post-9/11 era requires decisive action, including closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay. Mr. Rhodes is right that in the aftermath of 9/11, America “committed the familiar mistake of...
June 16, 2016On Monday night, friends, family, colleagues, and clients gathered to remember CCR's late president emeritus Michael Ratner. Many of them touched on Michael's and CCR's guiding belief of success...
Long before Israel's genocidal campaign on Gaza, there was voluminous evidence of grave human rights crimes
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