March 14, 2012, Springfield, MA and New York –Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a federal lawsuit against Abiding Truth Ministries President Scott Lively on behalf of...
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, CCR’s client, is a survivor-led support group for clergy sex abuse victims that joined with CCR to urge the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
February 17, 2012, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) strongly condemn Pope Benedict’s appointment of...
February 9, 2012, New York, NY – In response to Tuesday’s reintroduction in the Ugandan parliament of a bill that would require the death penalty for consensual sex between persons of the...
December 16, 2011, New York – In light of a report released today by an official commission investigating clergy sex abuse throughout the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands, the Center...
October 13, 2011, New York and Washington—This week, Members of the House of Representatives issued a Congressional Letter of Inquiry to the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) expressing their...
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...
September 30, 2011, New York—Today, in response to the news that a missile attack by an American drone aircraft had killed U.S. citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki in Yemen, the Center for Constitutional...
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...