July 2009The overwelmingly white New York City Fire Department used written recruitment exams that discriminated against Black and Hipanic job applicants, a Brooklyn federal judge ruled.
Updated: November 26, 2008
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on July 1, 2015. We’ll discuss secret detention and torture, in fiction and reality. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will be joined by author Ellen Meeropol...
Updated: June 24, 2015
March 17, 2016This past February, President Obama delivered his official Guantanamo Bay closure plan to Congress, seven years after he first issued an executive order to close the detention center. If the plan is...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will join the final panel of this two-day conference organized by the Bernstein Center at NYU Law School. The panel title is "Lessons to Confront Closure at Home" and...
Updated: March 31, 2017
July 12, 2017Migrant justice advocates and lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit against top U.S. immigration authorities including the Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. They allege that U...
THEN: In the 1970s, there were only 3,000 women entering law school yearly and a mere 7,000 in practice. Women were discriminated against (legally), disparaged (without recourse), punished for being...
Updated: May 21, 2008
In 2017, the Prosecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC), filed a request to open an investigation into alleged crimes in and related to the armed conflict in Afghanistan, including those...
Updated: November 25, 2019
February 5, 2009, New York – Attorneys for Mohammed al Qahtani, the victim of the “First Special Interrogation Plan” overseen by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, filed a motion last night...
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