In this series of related cases, CCR has tackled two sets of legal prohibitions that make it a crime to provide support, including humanitarian aid, literature distribution and political advocacy, to...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Since 9/11, the United States has not only detained thousands of people without charge in the name of a global “war” against Al Qaeda, the Taliban and “associated forces,” but...
Updated: September 25, 2014
On May 31, 2010, a six-boat flotilla, carrying more than 700 civilians from almost 40 countries seeking to bring humanitarian and rebuilding supplies to the Gaza Strip as well as to break the Israeli...
Updated: October 9, 2014
Applications are now open for Summer 2017 Ella Baker Internships. If you are a 2L, you must upload your application by October 16, 2016. 1L applicants must upload their applications by December 16,...
Updated: October 21, 2016
CCR has a strong practice of engaging with international human rights bodies to bring attention to our issues and uplift the experiences of those most impacted by the U.S. government’s failures to...
Updated: March 18, 2016
الفيلم الوثائقي مفطر القلب "في انتظار فهد،" يحكي قصة احد موكلي مركز الحقوق الدستوريه (CCR)، فهد غازي ، وهو مواطن يمني معتقل في غوانتانامو بصورة غير قانونية منذ كان عمره 17 عاما والذي يبلغ...
Updated: December 8, 2014
The heartrending documentary “Waiting for Fahd,” tells the story of CCR client Fahd Ghazy, a Yemeni national unlawfully detained at Guantánamo since he was 17..
Updated: September 4, 2021
"This report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard. And when we engaged in...
Updated: November 11, 2019
Back to the film Thanksgiving, 2014 To begin, please forgive me for not saying the right things or making the right points. There are different cultures between us and many different experiences. It...
Updated: January 14, 2016
Tariq Ba Odah was born in 1978 in the Shabwah district of Yemen where he lived until the age of one. He spent his adolescence and early adulthood in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, surrounded by his loving...
Updated: October 28, 2016
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