Pam Spees is a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has a background in international criminal law and human rights. Her work has focused on strengthening accountability...
July 23, 2008, New York – Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Senior Attorney Maria LaHood, who represents Maher Arar in the U.S., issued the following statement in response to Attorney...
Join NewsOne and Until Freedom for a virtual conversation on coronavirus, incarceration, and safety with a panel of experts. This discussion will focus on the conditions of prisoners, what legal...
Updated: April 8, 2020
Law4BlackLives was a national gathering, initiated by CCR, of over 1,000 lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers committed to building a world where #BlackLivesMatter. More than a...
Updated: September 14, 2016
CCR is excited to be an organizational participant in NEW INC’s Create...
Updated: April 10, 2017
April 15, 2020...The Make the Road New York litigation team (The Legal Aid Society, Center for Constitutional Rights, and the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP) and lead plaintiff (Make...
October 22, 2023...“Israel’s mass bombings and denial of food, water, and electricity are calculated to destroy the Palestinian population in Gaza,” Katherine Gallagher, senior attorney with CCR and a legal...
9:30am Belhas v. Ya’alon is a class action lawsuit filed against retired Israeli Lieutenant General Moshe Ya’alon that charges him with war crimes and extra-judicial killing for his role in the...
Updated: December 6, 2007
Todd Ashker, who also co-led hunger strikes, has been wrongly kept in segregated housing unit for more than 5 years March 3, 2022, Oakland, CA – Senior U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken has...
May 14, 2021...By opposing and prohibiting funding to many of the Israeli policies of military occupation that violate the human rights of the Palestinian people, and by increasing the transparency around US...
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