President Obama has submitted a plan to Congress to close Guantánamo Bay military prison. Despite Obama’s pledge to close the facility as one of his first acts...
Updated: February 24, 2016
Fordham Law School hosted a discussion on the policy challenges, legal concerns, and security considerations relating to the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Updated: April 7, 2017
Michigan's emergency manager law is once again coming into question. Monday, lawyers announced they've filed an appeal to a federal lawsuit.
Updated: March 15, 2016
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren's presentation to his alma mater, Haveford College, on visionary activism, Black Lives Matter, and human rights.
Updated: April 7, 2017
Murat%20Samantha%20Bee.jpg Years of lawyerless interrogation at Guantanamo Bay failed to connect Murat Kurnaz with terrorism, but Samantha Bee grills him just in case. Trouble seeing the video? Watch...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Michael Ratner, the president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, died today in New York City. For the past four decades he has been a leading champion of human and civil rights, from...
Updated: May 11, 2016
Michael Ratner’s activism and human rights work dated back to the 1960s. He was a student at Columbia Law School during the 1968...
Updated: May 12, 2016
On Wednesday, the trailblazing attorney Michael Ratner died at the age of 72. In recent years, Ratner served as the chief attorney for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and became a leading critic of...
Updated: May 12, 2016
The groundbreaking human rights attorney Michael Ratner has died at the age of 72. For over four decades, he defended, investigated and spoke up for victims of human rights abuses across the world...
Updated: May 12, 2016
Calling late CCR President Emeritus Michael Ratner "trailblazing," AJ+ highlights five reasons he'll be remembered as a badass.
Updated: April 7, 2017
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