June 13, 2011, Washington and New York – Today, nearly five years to the day after three men died at Guantánamo in June 2006 under still-unexplained circumstances, the Center for...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights for a panel discussion on imprisonment and resistance featuring Sahar Francis , director of the Ramallah-based prisoners' rights organization Addameer, Samar...
Updated: June 13, 2018
Why are guns for hire in Iraq? The U.S. government has increasingly been outsourcing functions previously carried out by government employees or members of the military to for-profit corporations...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Download the Crime Against Nature Factsheet Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature statute, which dates back to the 19th century, is an archaic law founded on moral disapproval of what kinds of sex acts...
Updated: April 14, 2022
Get the Facts: Suit Seeks Accountability for Killings of Three Americans in U.S. Drone Strikes Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta What are “targeted killings” and when are they illegal? Since 2001, and...
Updated: July 17, 2013
This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post on Monday, June 14, 2010 An African American man, Curtis Flowers, made history this week when he became the first person in U.S. history to...
Updated: June 23, 2010
“At all times throughout history the ideology of the ruling class is the ruling ideology.”—Karl Marx Lynne Stewart is a friend. She used to practice law in New York City. I still do...
Updated: July 22, 2010
SEEKING ANSWERS AND ACCOUNTABILITY FROM ISRAEL: THE RACHEL CORRIE CASE This entry was written by Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney, Katherine Gallagher, who is currently in Haifa...
Updated: October 20, 2010
A version of this article was originally posted by CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren on Huffington Post on November 11, 2010 Hammurabi, Moses, Justinian and Solon -- four titans of justice --...
Updated: December 1, 2010
This article was originally published on Huffington Post on December 28, 2010 Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire during...
Updated: December 29, 2010
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