August 27, New York – Yesterday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court ruling that $3.5 billion in blocked Afghan assets cannot be used to satisfy 9/11 judgments and other cases...
maya finoh (they/them) is the Political Education and Research Manager for the Center for Constitutional Rights. As part of the Advocacy team's growing Political Education and Research hub, maya...
January 7, 2010. From The Guardian.co.uk The US security company Blackwater agreed today to pay compensation over the killing of Iraqi civilians by company guards accused of reckless disregard for...
September 2013"As the country has been debating military intervention in Syria, the airwaves and blogosphere, conversations on the street and phone calls to Congress have rightly been filled with talk of the...
Diala Shamas is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security...
April 13, New York – In response to the Trump administration dropping the 21,600-pound GBU-43/B bomb in Afghanistan, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Not even 100...
Fending off demands that he resign over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, thenDefense secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress in 2004 that he had found a legal way to compensate Iraqi detainees who...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to partner with the Film Forum on a May 10 screening of The Silence of Others . Pablo de Greiff , former Special Rapporteur on the...
Updated: May 3, 2019
Michael Ratner devoted four decades of his life at the Center for Constitutional Rights as a staff attorney, legal director, and board president until his untimely death in 2016. We miss him...
Updated: June 2, 2021
Palestinian citizens face over 65 discriminatory laws, militarized policing, and severe political repression. At the same time, for over 50 years, Israel has maintained a brutal system of military...
Updated: February 20, 2018
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