December 28, 2023...Diala Shamas is senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a human rights non-profit headquartered in New York City. She said that while donations to communities like Ma’...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to partner with CultureHub and La MaMa as part of La Mama LiveTalks , conversations with artists, activists and thought leaders from around the country...
Updated: June 16, 2020
May 31, 2010 - The Center for Constitutional Rights strongly condemns the killings of human rights activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. The six ships that comprised the Flotilla were violently...
April 2014In late February, U.S. District Judge William J. Martini found that the New York Police Department hadn’t violated the rights of the New Jersey-based plaintiffs in Hassan v. City of New York, a...
June 13, 2017One month after President Donald Trump tweeted to his millions of Twitter followers that former FBI Director James Comey “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations…” neither Trump...
CCR Attorney Sunita Patel will speak on a panel alongside partners from Latino Justice/PRLDEF, NY Drug Policy Alliance and Vera Institute of Justice about CCR's Floyd case and its impact on New York...
Updated: November 8, 2013
Guantánamo and Beyond:The Supreme Court and the Future of Executive Detention Time: 7:00pm-10:00pm Emi MacLean, Staff Attorney with CCR’s Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative, will speak about June’s...
Updated: September 2, 2008
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Laura Raymond will participate as a panelist in a discussion on International Human Rights Law in Latin America on Saturday, October 6th from 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. at the...
Updated: October 1, 2012
January 11 marks the 14th anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay prison , an offshore facility created to isolate, dehumanize, and indefinitely detain Muslim men and boys swept up in post-9...
Updated: January 19, 2016
October 3, 2017"America is the friend of all Iraqi people." This was the sign put up at Abu Ghraib prison—one that replaced Saddam's portrait when the US took it over as part of the war on terror. It was Abu Ghraib...
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