Zee Scout is a Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, where she was a member of the Lambda Legal...
50 Years of the Jessup: Reflections on the Past, Visions of the Future Post-Conflict Obligations of States: Gender-based violence during conflicts and the consequences for such crimes under...
Updated: March 25, 2009
August 12, 2022...Ahead of the first regular review of the US record since 2014, rights advocates insisted the US government had never adequately addressed violations against black people during slavery and...
August 4, 2016On Monday, in the same city in which Alton Sterling, a 37 year-old Black man, was killed by the police and three police officers were killed by a civilian, the “Blue Lives Matter” law that...
CCR Staff Attorney Omar Farah will speak on a panel at the Curating Guant á namo Public History and Public Awareness conference at Rutgers University on March 29th. The name of the panel is...
Updated: March 28, 2013
On September 6, 2006, President George W. Bush revealed that the United States runs a system of secret detention in the “War on Terror,” but he did not disclose how many individuals were...
Updated: January 11, 2010
May 23, 2016As Marcia Coyle reported last week in The National Law Journal , and as I predicted back in December, the Solicitor General has filed a petition for certiorari in Ashcroft v. Turkmen , challenging...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, Justice for Muslims Collective , and Witness Against Torture for a conversation on the state of Muslim rights in the ongoing U.S. War on Terror. Advocacy...
Updated: January 4, 2019
October 12, 2015Answer: When the child is Black and the shooter is a police officer. Welcome to America, where #BlackLivesMatter is a trending hashtag, but police impunity is a lethal reality of Black life. There’s...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights to celebrate the publication of the new book by former Guantanamo detainee Murat Kurnaz. In October 2001, nineteen year old Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen...
Updated: March 31, 2008
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