July 13, 2020On July 8th, the Abolitionist Law Center, Amistad Law Project, and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania, seeking to abolish the states’s cruel mandatory Life Without...
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release: January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - REVIEW OF DETENTION POLICY OPTIONS By the authority vested in me as President by...
On November 14 th , 2013, the CCR and Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute hosted an important CLE program on Alien Tort Statute (ATS). The program focused on the use of the ATS as a tool for...
Updated: March 20, 2014
En Español Abajo Four women in sanctuary filed suit after government hit them with hundred of thousands of dollars in discriminatory, retaliatory fines June 22, 2023 – Under a settlement made public...
CCR helped organize a sign-on letter protesting a recent increase in forced evictions from Haiti's camps for Internally Displaced Persons. The letter, signed by lawyers, law professors, and human...
Updated: August 24, 2011
Urgent Intervention Needed to Protect Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons from COVID-19 Exposure April 14, 2020 For the attention of: The UN Special Procedures, including: - The UN...
Updated: April 16, 2020
Urgent Intervention Needed to Protect Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli Prisons from COVID-19 Exposure April 14, 2020 For the attention of: The International Committee of the Red Cross...
Updated: April 16, 2020
“The best way for the American people to send a message to the Bush administration and the world that ‘we the people’ of the United States do not condone torture is to mobilize to reject the...
New York, NY – On May 6, 2010, Rhonda Copelon, a CUNY School of Law professor and human rights attorney with and Vice-President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who broke new...
(This entire 4-page statement is available as a PDF download with this link ) Last week, the American people elected Senator Barack Obama the next president, and the nation’s first African...
Updated: January 11, 2010
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