In Fall 2013, Professor Steven Salaita accepted a tenured faculty position in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) after a rigorous, year-long...
Updated: January 30, 2015
June 26, 2015I last saw Tariq Ba Odah in March, just one month after he completed the eighth year of an unbroken hunger strike in protest of his continued detention without charge at Guantánamo. Tariq’s lawyer,...
July 9, 2015and Carey Shenkman In the struggle against the US government's unprecedented war on whistleblowers and their publishers, there is a pivotal role the United Nations can and must play. By recognizing...
Medical Expert: “Continual enteral feeding is shockingly inadequate” September 11, 2015, New York – Attorneys for a 74-pound Guantánamo prisoner who is “on the precipice of death” according to three...
October 14, 2015Dear Mayor de Blasio: We understand from a recent report in The New York Times that you will be departing tomorrow on a journey to the State of Israel. According to the article, your purpose is to...
March 8, 2016The Israeli government is seeking immunity for former Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak in a civil lawsuit filed last October by the parents of Furkan Doğan , an American teenager killed on May...
March 25, 2016By Dima Khalidi, director of Palestine Legal and cooperating counsel with CCR For us Palestinian-Americans, the height of election year means it is cringe season. The American Israel Public Affairs...
April 13, 2016Amid a news cycle crowded with reports about Republican fearmongering and the Obama Administration’s bureaucratic paralysis on closing Guantánamo, a local news article last week from Fort Wayne,...
August 9, 2016Two years ago today, Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by Police Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Some witness accounts say he had his hands up and said “don’t shoot.”...
The Advocacy Program Manager (APM) will collaborate with CCR staff and our allies on dynamic advocacy campaigns and initiatives that advance CCR’s organizational mission and support CCR’s clients,...
Updated: October 10, 2016
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