June 14, 2021The Black Freedom Struggle Continues This year, our 55th, and henceforth, the Center for Constitutional Rights will formally observe Juneteenth as a paid holiday for all staff. Long celebrated in...
Join The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law on Thursday, September 26 , at 12:15 p.m. PT for a hybrid panel on the Center for Constitutional Rights’ historic case Defense...
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January 29, 2025, New York – In response to President Trump’s executive order to prepare a massive facility at Guantánamo to detain immigrants, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
Submits Notice of Hearing Request in U.S. Court to Address Serious Concerns Regarding Physical and Mental Health December 6, 2018, The Hague/New York – Today, the legal representative for one of the...
May 31, 2018...With Trump in the White House and racist violence permeating the culture from Ferguson to Charlottesville, debates over who has the power to speak have taken on an even greater urgency. “We haven’...
June 3, 2022...The discussion noted a recent increase in support by Americans for Palestinian rights. Activism favoring Palestinians has also grown. But as support grew, so did U.S. efforts to suppress such...
October 24, 2011 - In light of last Thursday’s official apology from the Guatemalan government to the family of President Arbenz for the coup d’état and subsequent human rights...
May 6, 2008, Washington, D.C. — In a first-of-its-kind hearing, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorney Emi MacLean and other Guantánamo attorneys today told Representatives on the House...
Trump’s Blanket Refusal to Release Any Detainee Amounts to Arbitrary Detention, Lawsuit Says January 11, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 16 th anniversary of the Guantánamo prison’s opening,...
December 10, 2018Reunified and Released: Salvadoran mother and son reunited after eight months of separation [caption align="right"] [/caption] A Salvadoran mother and her four-year-old son are together again, eight...
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