October 12, 2011, Paris, France – Today, Robert Meeropol, Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children, outspoken opponent of the death penalty, and the younger son of Ethel and Julius...
Oral argument will be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals in the case of Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld tomorrow, October 6. Al-Zahrani is a civil action filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on...
September 29, 2011, Vancouver – Today, the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ) lodged a detailed and lengthy...
September 29, 2011 , New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has joined the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and...
September 26, 2011 NEW YORK – In response to the release of a major human rights report on clerical sexual abuse, released today by Amnesty International in Ireland, CCR issued the following...
Read the complete letter. CCR writes to ask you to prevent the execution of Troy Anthony Davis. Capital punishment, as it is applied in the United States, is expensive, racist, arbitrary, fallible...
September 13, 2011 – A survivor-led support group for clergy sex abuse victims today formally urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to investigate the Vatican for crimes...
September 12, 2011, New York - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights responded to the United States Court of Military Commission Review (CMRC) decision in Al-Bahlul v. United States , which was...
September 8, 2011, New York – Plaintiffs challenging the discriminatory requirement that they must register as sex offenders because of a Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) conviction...
September 2, 2011, New York – In anticipation of the expected release today of the Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident , which was...