October 2009When he took office, President Obama made clear that torture is illegal and that the United States would not abuse detainees in its custody. But when it comes to those tortured during the Bush...
February 2015" At Guantánamo, Fahd Ghazy, is nameless. He is known only by his internment serial number, 026. That number was assigned to Fahd in 2002, shortly after he was picked up by Pakistani police and...
Trouble playing the video? Watch it here . With 18 months left in his presidency, will Barack Obama be able to follow through on his oft-stated goal of closing Guantánamo Bay? A shifting relationship...
Updated: December 15, 2015
January 7, 2016A New Jersey business owner who claims he was harmed by the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslim groups praised a settlement Thursday that will strengthen safeguards against illegal...
February 7, 2017In the days after Donald Trump signed his executive order on immigration, it became clear that Customs and Border Protection officers were not all complying with court decisions limiting the order’s...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren will provide the keynote address at the 18th Annual Peter M. Cicchino Public Service Awards Dinner at American University Washington College of Law. This event is...
Updated: March 23, 2017
March 22, 2019... PETA and other groups found instances of workers "hurling small piglets onto a concrete floor" and beating them with metal rods, court documents show . The backlash caused producers to panic:...
December 18, 2019...The “Erase the Database” campaign, to be launched Thursday, marks the latest in a yearslong effort to end collection of names and monitoring of the estimated 17,500 to 42,000 New Yorkers believed...
November 6, 2020... We examine the implications of the new Supreme Court in key areas. Lynn Paltrow, executive director of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women , discusses the future of reproductive rights...
February 17, 2021... Just one day ago, a coalition of civil liberties, press freedom, and human rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International USA, Center for Constitutional Rights...
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