The Center for Constitutional Rights has long stood in solidarity with popular and democratic movements in Haiti to address the undemocratic forces at play there and the interests in the United...
December 22, 2010 - Last week, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from legal and free speech experts about the possible application of the Espionage Act to the recent publication of secret...
December 14, 2010, Madrid, Spain – Today, two leading human rights groups filed papers urging a Spanish judge to open a criminal investigation into the role of former Bush administration...
December 9, 2010, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents Guantanamo detainees and coordinates the work of hundreds of pro bono attorneys on legal cases...
December 7, 2010, New York – In response to the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: As a human rights...
December 7, 2010 WASHINGTON – A federal court today acknowledged the serious issues raised by a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s targeted killing policy, but dismissed the...
December 1, 2010, New York - Today, CCR sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders to ask her to investigate the case of the shack...
Tribunal on Social Exclusion Celebrating World Dignity Day (Dec 3 rd ) & 10 Days of Action on Social Exclusion (Dec 1 st - 10 th ) Thursday, December 9 th – 3:30-6p.m. Church Center for the...
November 29, 2010, New York, NY — In response to reports of a criminal investigation into the release of thousands of classified United States files and military documents by Wikileaks in July...
This week, the British government announced it will pay millions in compensation to 16 men who were detained by U.S. forces at Guantánamo. These men say the British government knew that...