October 7, 2015As Israeli violence against the Palestinian people escalates, support across the globe for justice in Palestine, and calls in this country for the US government and corporations to stop facilitating...
In September of 1971, an uprising by the incarcerated men of Attica, a maximum-security prison located in western New York, ended in the bloodiest attack by state authorities in United States history...
Updated: August 26, 2021
Michael Ratner’s activism and human rights work dated back to the 1960s. He was a student at Columbia Law School during the 1968...
Updated: May 12, 2016
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we’ve developed a distinctive set of tools and strategies that mine the fine veins of principles that are justice-enabling, use litigation strategically to...
Updated: December 11, 2024
August 12, 2019Fordham University Students Win Landmark Fight to Establish Palestine Club Five Fordham University students, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights, have won a landmark legal victory...
March 24, 2011, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) launched litigation against two United States agencies seeking information relating to the coup d’...
March 16, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement concerning the hearing before the United States Court of Military Commission Review...
Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long history of working closely with the Nigerian government to quell popular opposition to...
Updated: July 21, 2010
WHAT : Accountability Today – Preventing Torture Tomorrow A panel discussion featuring the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, legal experts, and special video testimonials from victims of the U...
Updated: May 31, 2011
Update: on April 2, 2021, the Biden administration revoked the Executive Order. Advocates welcomed the decision, but urged that the investigations into war crimes and crimes against humanity in...
Updated: April 2, 2021
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