October13, 2009, Albany, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the legality of prison phone rates in oral arguments before the Court of Appeals of the State of New...
October 5, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) learned today of the existence of video and audio tapes of the abusive interrogations of client Mohammed al Qahtani, the...
September 23, 2009, New York and Washington DC —In response to the CIA’s refusal to either ‘confirm or deny’ the existence of key torture documents, three human rights groups...
August 6, 2009, Ottawa and New York – Human rights organizations are calling on the Canadian government to investigate retired U.S. Army colonel and psychologist Dr. Larry C. James, a former...
August 24, 2009, New York and Washington – Baach Robinson & Lewis PLLC and the Center for Constitutional Rights today filed a petition to the Supreme Court on behalf of four British...
September 4, 2009 – Today, Judge Trendafilova of the International Criminal Court (ICC) denied a petition filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the International Women's Human...
Civil rights and community groups across the country denounce Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano’s plans to expand the highly criticized 287(g) program to eleven...
June 8, 2009 - Today, plaintiffs and defendants reached a settlement in the human rights cases brought against Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading, p.l.c., Shell’s...
January 22, 2010 Judge Orders New York to Correct Bias in Fire Department By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT A federal judge on Thursday ordered the City of New York to remedy years of discriminatory hiring in...
February 10, 2010, New York, Jerusalem, Geneva, Los Angeles – Today, parties defending a 12th Century Muslim cemetery and holy site from desecration by Israeli authorities and a U.S. developer...
