March 22, 2018... On the 15th anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, the Center for Constitutional Rights in the U.S. renewed its call for the U.S. to pay war reparations to the people of Iraq. This is one...
When the Abu Ghraib photos surfaced in 2004, they exposed a system of torture and humiliation of Iraqi detainees that reached far beyond Abu Ghraib to other prisons and involved both military...
Updated: March 5, 2009
On Thursday, September 3rd at 12:00pm ET , the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will honor CCR Board member, human rights scholar, and activist Professor Gay McDougall . Ms...
Updated: August 30, 2020
Human rights disparities across race and socioeconomic strata have been magnified since the outbreak of the coronavirus. The effects on Black and Brown communities have been disproportionate, as...
Updated: February 9, 2021
June 4, 2025, Washington, DC — Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today over the detention of immigrants at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. The federal lawsuit was filed by the...
Updated: February 23, 2010
April 10, 2008, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement on the accountability of top Bush administration officials for the U.S. government...
December 3, 2015A Yemeni prisoner detained for over 13 years at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was reportedly held there partly as a result of mistaken identity. U.S. officials determined that Mustafa al-...
May 16, 2019...“The thing all these people have in common is their activism on behalf of freedom for Palestinian people,” said Diala Shamas, a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a legal...
July 6, 2023...“I was a victim of US torture by the CIA. I survived and have forgiven my torturers, and I am moving on with my life in Belize. But I still wait for an apology, medical care, and other...
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