ALEXANDRIA, Va. — After nine years of fits and starts, dismissals and reinstatements, a federal lawsuit filed by one-time inmates at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq against civilian...
November 17, 2009, New York – Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the first brief in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case to challenge a portion of the...
International Indifference to 16 years of a Suffocating Closure of the Gaza Strip and Decades of Israeli Impunity for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Against Palestinians Is Necessary Context...
Amid the unfolding Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) is hosting a two-day gathering in Geneva of...
It would be difficult to overstate Peter Weiss’s contributions to international human rights law. He became active in CCR early in its history and served on the board for nearly five decades,...
Join the Not On Our Dime! campaign for a rally and lobby day in Albany, NY. The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to be a member of the campaign. The day will kick off with a press conference...
Solidarity with the Honduran Resistance Movement Sunday, March 20 The Left Forum , Pace University, New York City 10am to 11:50am Panelists: Anjana Samant- Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional...
“[It’s] like we’re buried alive.” That’s how CCR client Sharqawi Al Hajj describes his imprisonment at Guantánamo, as a cemetery. Before he was brought to the island prison, Sharqawi was disappeared...
Paris, New York, June 12, 2008 – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today submitted a letter on the plight of former Guantánamo and Bagram prisoners in Afghanistan to foreign government...
October 5, 2024, New York – On the International Day of Action and as we approach one year since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian people in Gaza, the Center for...
