In September 2013, CCR published a shadow report submission entitled, Stopped, Seized and Under Siege: U.S. Government Violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights through...
Updated: September 9, 2013
In May 2013, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) undertook a fact-finding mission in California and Louisiana to evaluate the death penalty...
Updated: November 18, 2013
Introduction There are a number of detained men at Guantánamo from "high-risk" countries where there is a very real danger of persecution or torture should they be forcibly returned...
Updated: February 11, 2014
Know Before You Go - A Guide for Traveling to Cuba
Updated: July 14, 2014
On May 11, 2015, the U.S. government was reviewed for the second time under the Universal Period Review (UPR) process, a process in which a country’s entire human rights record is examined by the...
Updated: March 7, 2016
For the December 9, 2014 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "The State of Civil and Human Rights in the United States," called by the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and...
Updated: December 9, 2014
For almost two decades through litigation, legislative advocacy, research, and social movement support, CCR has challenged and sought to reform abusive and discriminatory policing policies and...
Updated: July 12, 2016
CCR submitted written testimony for a thematic hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on race and criminal justice in the United States. CCR's testimony touched on several...
Updated: July 13, 2015
Download this Executive Summary as a PDF . Learn more about the case, SMUG v. Lively. In March 2012, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) filed a lawsuit against Scott Lively, a U.S.-based anti-gay...
Updated: May 23, 2016
On Friday, October 21, 2016 the Public Safety Committee of the New York City Council held an oversight hearing of the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani...
Updated: January 10, 2017
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