Samah Sisay is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she specializes in international human rights and challenging inhumane immigration policies and abusive police practices...
As New Yorkers, we at CCR all have our personal stories of that terrible day. As an organization, our 9/11 story is about how we sprang into action and how we have continued to respond to the...
April 24, 2009 Washington, D.C. – In a suit brought by British men imprisoned for two years at Guantanamo, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today reaffirmed its previous ruling that Guantanamo...
California Attorney General Kamala Harris is nothing if not ambitious. Not content with being the Golden State's top law enforcement officer--a position she has held since 2011, after serving seven...
Top photo credit: Giau Truong Beauty does not typically come to mind when you think of Guantánamo, but it’s a central theme in artists Aaron Hughes and Amber Ginsburg ’s Tea Project , a collection of...
July 27, 2023, San Diego, CA – Today two immigrant rights groups and a group of asylum seekers filed a class action lawsuit in federal court challenging the Biden administration’s unlawful policy of...
March 19, 2021, New York – On the 18th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Eighteen years after the United States invaded...
On Thursday, September 3rd at 12:00pm ET , the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will honor CCR Board member, human rights scholar, and activist Professor Gay McDougall . Ms...
