The Center for Constitutional Rights works with communities under threat to fight for justice and liberation through litigation, advocacy, and strategic communications. Since 1966, the Center for...
Updated: November 16, 2021
The Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled a hearing on December 7, 2021, to examine the situation at the Guantanamo Bay prison twenty years after its opening and the path toward closure. Statements...
Updated: December 7, 2021
Where is the world to save us from torture? Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness? – Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif Twenty years after the opening of Guantánamo , Adnan's questions remain...
Updated: February 2, 2022
Everything can be used / except what is wasteful / (you will need / to remember this when you are accused of destruction). Audre Lorde, 1981, “ The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism ”...
Updated: January 31, 2022
This Women’s History Month we reaffirm our duty to actively support those who daily fight to dismantle patriarchal violence : the interconnected systems of dominance that marginalize and limit the...
Updated: March 1, 2022
On March 11, 2022, the anniversary of the American Rescue Plan, the Center for Constitutional Rights sent a letter to President Biden outlining key policy priorities and demands. The letter urges the...
Updated: March 11, 2022
Breaking the Lock: Accessing Public Records to Map Systems, Algorithms and Data is a new open records resource from the Center for Constitutional Rights, AI Now, and Northeastern School of Law CLIC...
Updated: March 18, 2022
At the Center for Constitutional Rights, we have moved and continue to move in solidarity with gender-oppressed people targeted by institutions designed to reinforce, as bell hooks theorized, “white...
Updated: April 14, 2022
March 23, 2022 The Honorable Dick Durbin Chair, Senate Judiciary Committee The Honorable Chuck Grassley Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee Dear Chairman Durbin and Ranking Member Grassley: We...
Updated: March 23, 2022
Dear Mr. President: We write because your administration’s consistently yielding response to the Israeli government’s escalating attacks against prominent Palestinian human rights and civil society...
Updated: August 30, 2022
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