October 23, 2017A prisoner prohibited from speaking to his family for four months after uttering the words “As-Salaam-Alaikum.” Books that have to be destroyed after one prisoner reads them, lest he somehow use the...
CCR is proud to co-sponsor the inaugural celebration of Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution in New York City. The program will honor Fred Korematsu as a civil liberties role...
Updated: January 18, 2018
Katherine Franke, New York, is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, where she also directs the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and is the faculty director of the Public...
August 23, 2018, North Dakota – Yesterday, a federal court dismissed the environmental movement Earth First! from a lawsuit by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the corporation behind the Dakota Access...
Continuing Xenophobic Attacks on Vulnerable Migrants Is Clearly Unlawful November 8, 2018, New York – Today, in response to the new Trump administration rule that would preemptively deny asylum to...
Join the CUNY School of Law's Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice for the first in a series of human rights seminars led by their 2020 Scholar-in-Residence, longtime Center for...
Updated: February 4, 2020
September 17, 2020, New York – In response to today’s ruling by a panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocking New York City’s publication of NYPD officer disciplinary records,...
February 16, 2021, San Francisco – A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third...
Alejandra Ancheita, founder and Executive Director of the Mexico City-based NGO ProDESC (The Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Project), is a Mexican lawyer and activist and a leader of the human...
May 16, 2024...The water crisis in my home city of Jackson, Miss., made national news again last year. The cameras have since moved on but residents continue to deal with issues of access to safe water except...
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