In this rare visit to the United States, leading Palestinian human rights defenders Raji Sourani and Shawan Jabarin will provide timely perspectives from the ground in Gaza and the dynamic situation...
Updated: April 11, 2016
June 30, 2014, Richmond, VA – Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that victims of torture and abuse in Abu Ghraib prison could pursue legal claims for their abuse against private...
Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St. James brought this action against St. James Parish for its decades of environmental racism and discriminatory siting of industrial...
Updated: June 1, 2026
January 3, 2013, New York – In response to President Obama’s signing of the controversial 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
Today marks the 1,000th day WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spent in political asylum inside Ecuador’s London embassy. For the first time, Swedish prosecutors have opened the door to Assange’s...
Updated: May 11, 2016
On December 8, 2015, CCR Legal Worker Ian Head testified on behalf of the Center before the New York State Assembly on the use of body-worn cameras by law enforcement officials. Testimony of the...
Updated: December 14, 2015
New York and Madrid, April 13, 2011 – After a two-year delay punctuated by efforts to undermine the Spanish judiciary’s independence, the Obama administration recently told a Spanish...
October 7, 2019Call to action: Tell the Supreme Court to defend the rights of LGBTQ workers [caption align="left"] [/caption] Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear cases to decide whether LGBTQ people are protected...
June 2010Mahar Arar's quest to force the U.S. government to come clean about why he was shipped by the Bush administration to Syria and tortured has been bolstered by a letter from Foreign Minister Lawrence...
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