There is hardly a struggle aimed at upholding and extending the rights embedded in the U.S. Constitution in which the Center for Constitutional Rights has not played a central role. Whether defending...
Updated: May 17, 2012
August 2, 2017On July 23, Lufthansa Airlines prevented five members of an interfaith delegation to Israel and Palestine from boarding their flight from Washington, D.C., to Tel Aviv, reportedly following...
April 17, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum...
December 3, 2021... “It’s not part of the ‘punishment,’ for people who are serving time, to be sexually abused, harassed and assaulted, day in and day out,” says Chinyere Ezie, a senior attorney at the Center for...
Guantánamo and Beyond:The Supreme Court and the Future of Executive Detention Time: 7:00pm-10:00pm Emi MacLean, Staff Attorney with CCR’s Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative, will speak about June’s...
Updated: September 2, 2008
Laura Flanders Journalist and host of GRITtv Chris Hedges Senior fellow at The Nation Institute and former Middle East correspondent for the New York Times Sister Diana Ortiz Survivor of torture,...
Updated: June 2, 2009
April 17, 2013, Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a disappointing decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) , holding that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) does not...
July 14, 2014, Washington, D.C. – In response to today’s en banc ruling by the D.C. Court of Appeals in Al-Bahlul v. United States , the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the...
Decision disproportionately harms LGBTQIA+ people, who are unhoused at extremely high rates
December 16, 2021While it might be easy to assume the remaining men are the most difficult cases who cannot be sent anywhere, that is far from true.
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