December 3, 2011, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement calling on President Obama to honor his promise to veto the controversial National Defense...
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to partner with BAM and Amazon Studios’ Reel Impact series on a special screening of The Feeling of Being Watched . Following the screening, Senior...
Updated: April 24, 2019
May 1, 2024This was the first time that victims of the United States’ post-9/11 torture testified in a U.S. courtroom
September 11, 2014, Urbana-Champaign, IL – Prof. Steven Salaita and his attorneys responded today to the announcement that the Board of Trustees voted to terminate him from a tenured position...
On October 31, 2009, after nearly eight years of unlawful imprisonment at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Ahmad Abdulahad, Abdulghappar Abdulrahman and Zafar Arslan, ethnic Uighurs from far western...
Updated: February 16, 2010
August 6, 2014, New York – Today, the City of New York and plaintiffs jointly filed a motion with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to withdraw the City’s appeal of Floyd v. City of New...
Court Hears Emergency Motion From Ashley Diamond May 12, 2021, Atlanta – Today, a federal judge heard an emergency motion in a case charging the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) with violating...
The second edition of International Human Rights Litigation, published in January 2008, reflects court decisions released as of January 2007. The following lists key developments as of February 1,...
Updated: February 25, 2008
LGBT UGANDA FIGHTS BACK: THE CASE AGAINST SCOTT LIVELY They Will Say We Are Not Here BY Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright | Jan. 25, 2012 | 5:01
Updated: July 23, 2012
The ten years since the attacks of 9/11 and range of government responses have featured two important and competing trends in the arena of civil rights damages litigation. On the one hand, federal...
Updated: November 29, 2011
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