January 11, 2018Eleven Guantánamo inmates are challenging their indefinite detention in the US military camp in Cuba on grounds that Donald Trump’s defiant pledge to keep all remaining detainees permanently locked...
March 6, 2018...Tuesday’s testimony marked the first time that a former head of state of a foreign country faced trial in a U.S. civil court for human rights abuses, according to the Center for Constitutional...
July 10, 2019... The struggle to create a better world is, at times, painful. However, there is beauty in those who continue to pursue justice for the most vulnerable of us. This is the work of the Center for...
July 20, 2023...Friend-of-the-court arguments in support of plaintiffs were filed by David J. Scheffer, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, as well as by EarthRights International and the...
May 18, 2018...I know that Amnesty International and the Center for Constitutional Rights also have extensive dossiers against high-level US officials involved in these torture programs, including Haspel. She...
July 23, 2008, New York – Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Senior Attorney Maria LaHood, who represents Maher Arar in the U.S., issued the following statement in response to Attorney...
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...
Pack the Court for United States of America and Vulcan Society, Inc., v. City of New York , starting Monday, Oct. 1st For more than a decade, CCR has been challenging the fundamental inequality of...
Updated: September 25, 2012
October 1, 2012, Washington D.C. – Today, as the Supreme Court opened its term with oral argument in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum , Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director...
February 24, 2014, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to reports that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed the...
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