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Prepared for the 9th Annual World Day Against the Death Penalty, this video accompanies the position paper entitled “The US Tortures Before it Kills: An Examination of the Death Row Experience from a Human Rights Perspective,” which analyzes…
"Speaking from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights says New York City’s efforts to displace Occupy Wall Street protesters in order to clean the park violates their First…
CCR Executive Director, Vincent Warren, sits down with MSNBC host Chris Hayes and American Conservative contributor Michael Brendan Dougherty to discuss the legal implications of the killing of Al-Qaeda operative and American citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki. (alternate…
(From DemocracyNow.org) As Syria continues its brutal crackdown on demonstrators, we speak to a Canadian citizen who was repeatedly tortured by Syrian authorities after he was rendered to Syria by the United States in 2002.…
From DemocracyNow: Democracy Now! hosts a discussion about President Obama's handling of comprehensive immigration reform. On Tuesday, Obama visited the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time since his election in 2008 to deliver a major…
Democracy Now! speaks to Center for Constitutional Rights senior staff attorney Maria LaHood about the U.S. assassination campaign. It was reported to be the first U.S. drone strike in Yemen in nine years. "It is…
Citing inhumane conditions, the Center for Constitutional Rights has called for the Obama administration to halt deportations to Haiti.
This video is from a February 8, 2011 program supported by more than a dozen NYU School of Law student groups to coincide with NYU’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week. Quigley, director of…
From GRITtv: Accountability and transparency are two key elements to a responsible government, notes Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and WikiLeaks and other sites like it help fulfill the transparency side of things,…
From the AP: Despite a pledge to compensate victims of the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal, the Pentagon is unable to document any payments to any of the affected detainees. The AP's Sagar Meghani has a…
This panel took place on Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at the NetRoots Nation conference, Las Vegas, NV. With more private military contractors in Afghanistan than troops; BP directing its own clean-up in the Gulf; the privatization…
From FORA.tv's description: A panel including Ron Suskind, Vince Warren and Fisher Stevens explore the dark corners of illegal kidnapping, confinement, secret prisons and torture. Harold Pinter said "I believe that, despite the enormous odds which exist,…
Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the Bagram decision. He provides us with a critical analysis of the ruling and its implications moving forth.
From GritTV.org: Should housing rights be considered civil and human rights? Even though critics claim that housing shortages are crosses to bear, one can?t solve foreclosures without first investigating problems behind public housing…
From DemocracyNow.org: Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts introduced a measure Thursday to strip Americans charged with terrorism of their U.S. citizenship. We speak with Shayana Kadidal, senior…
From WABC: An Eyewitness News investigation talks to a police officer who reveals the pressure they are under to make quotas. When Officer Adil Polanco dreamed of becoming a cop, it was out of a desire…
From GritTV.org: Public protest isn't dead, but those are only a few people in a huge population that suffers all sorts of indignities regularly. Our military budget is outlandish and our freedoms are regularly taken…
CCR board member Professor David Cole speaks about government sanctioned torture on an “After the OPR report” panel.
Thursday, January 21, 2010, Vincent Warren, CCR’s Executive Director, participated on a panel hosted by the American Constitution Society at a half-day symposium on Access to Justice in Federal Courts at New York University School…
Court Rules New York Fire Department Discriminates Against Black, Latino Applicants A federal judge has determined that the Fire Department of New York City used racially discriminatory hiring practices that unlawfully prevented hundreds of qualified African…
CCR's executive director Vince Warren joins MSNBC's Rachel Madow, General Ricardo Sanchez, and Ron Suskind to discuss a "blueprint for accountability" on a panel arranged by the Culture Project. This presentation was directed by Fisher Stevens…
The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay a $15.5 million settlement to avoid a trial over its alleged involvement in human rights violations in the Niger Delta. The case was brought on…
Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights speaks with Democracy Now about pushing for prosecutions of Bush Administration Officials for the war crimes they have committed.
Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights speaks with Democracy Now about pushing for prosecutions of Bush Administration Officials for the war crimes they have committed.
Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights speaks with Democracy Now about pushing for prosecutions of Bush Administration Officials for the war crimes they have committed.
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