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The Center for Constitutional Rights〔(The Center for Constitutional Rights ).〕 (CCR) is a non-profit legal advocacy organization based in New York City, U.S., co-founded in 1966 by William Kunstler and others. CCR has focused on civil liberties and human rights litigation and activism, as well as providing legal assistance to people imprisoned in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. ==History== The Center, originally the Law Center for Constitutional Rights, was set up to give legal and financial support to lawyers who were representing civil rights movement activists in Mississippi at the height of the struggle against racial segregation and economic injustice. Its founders were Morton Stavis, Arthur Kinoy, Ben Smith and William Kunstler. The Center conceived of itself as a "movement support" organization—that is, an organization that concentrated on working with political and social activists to use the courts to promote the activists' work. Cases were chosen not necessarily because they could be won, but also because they would raise public awareness of an issue, generating media attention, or energizing activists harassed by local law enforcement in the southern US. In this regard, the Center differed from more traditional legal non-profits such as the ACLU, which was more focused on bringing winnable cases in order to extend precedents and develop the law, as well as pursuing First Amendment issues. The current organization was formed from the merger of the original Center for Constitutional Rights (formed in 1966 by Kunstler, Kinoy, Stavis and Smith) and the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (ECLC). Since 9/11, CCR has been known for bringing a variety of cases challenging the Bush administration's extraordinary rendition, detention and interrogation practices in the so-called "Global War on Terror". According to CCR's website, primary issues for advocacy and public education include: illegal detentions,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Illegal Detentions and Guantanamo; Center for Constitutional Rights )〕 particularly with regards to the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp; surveillance and attacks on dissent,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Surveillance and Attacks on Dissent; Center for Constitutional Rights )〕 which fights the U.S. government's involvement in unlawful surveillance, monitoring and intimidation of activists such as the Black Panthers; criminal justice and mass incarceration,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Criminal Justice and Mass Incarceration; Center for Constitutional Rights )〕 including jail expansions and unjust detentions; corporate and human rights abuse both domestic and international; government abuse of power,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Government Abuse of Power; Center for Constitutional Rights )〕 primarily encompassing CCR's challenge to the Bush administration's policy of extraordinary rendition; racial, gender and economic justice;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Racial, Gender and Economic Justice; Center for Constitutional Rights )〕 and international law and accountability.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=International Law and Accountability; Center for Constitutional Rights )〕 In 2005 the organization was recognized with the Domestic Human Rights Award by Global Exchange, in San Francisco.〔("Global Exchange Human Rights Awards Ceremony to be Held on May 12 in San Francisco" ) May 4, 2005〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Center for Constitutional Rights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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