Join CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren and co-panelists Dawud Walid and Rana Elmir for a timely discussion about the controversial government initiative known as Countering Violent Extremism...
Updated: October 18, 2016
October 17, 2016Ten years ago today, President George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA). It was enacted to authorize trials by military commission for the September 11 attacks, and...
October 18, 2016Last Friday, October 14, marked one year since reforms began under the historic settlement agreement in CCR’s case Ashker v. Brown , which effectively ended long-term solitary confinement throughout...
Indefinite solitary confinement numbers down by 99% A year after the historic settlement in Ashker v. Governor of California mandated an end to indefinite solitary confinement in California, new data...
Updated: October 21, 2016
Join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher for a conversation with UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk , Jamil Dakwar , and Michael Sfard on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian...
Updated: October 18, 2016
In July 2016, Color of Change (COC) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request seeking information from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
Updated: August 31, 2020
August 18, 2016Part-way through my Skype interview with Adrian Jjuuko, executive director of the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) , in Kampala, Uganda, a dog’s loud, insistent barking began...
October 17, 2016North Dakota State's Attorney Ladd Erickson has dropped criminal trespassing charges against Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman -- and is instead seeking to charge her with participating in a riot,...
October 18, 2016At the time, the charges against Goodman were apparently for trespassing, but late on Friday, the state attorney alerted Goodman's lawyer that they were now actually trying to charge her with rioting...
Stephanie Llanes is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works in the Government Misconduct Racial Justice docket. Stephanie earned her J.D. from UC Berkeley...
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