October 18, 2023, Geneva, Switzerland – Today, members of U.S. Civil Society turned their backs in silent protest of the U.S. delegation during the closing remarks given by U.S. Ambassador Michele...
Provides Important Protection for Those Previously Turned Back at Ports of Entry SAN DIEGO – A federal judge today blocked the Trump administration’s asylum ban from being applied to thousands of...
In a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of stories, the Associated Press revealed through leaked documents that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had secretly launched a vast program of human mapping...
Updated: September 8, 2021
August 9, 2022They will discuss the struggle of Black communities against toxic industry, environmental racism, and desecration of the burial grounds of enslaved people
The Feminist Press at CUNY - the world's oldest continuing feminist publisher - is thrilled to honor Human Rights Lawyer Rhonda Copelon with the Crossing Borders Award. This award recognizes...
Updated: September 29, 2009
December 30, 2015The failure to indict a police officer for yet another killing of a young, Black person – this time a child, 12-year-old Tamir Rice – should outrage us and cause us to look more deeply at the...
Justice and Accountability for Torture Please join Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher and Temple Law Professor David Kairys for a discussion of justice and...
Updated: March 5, 2009
December 2, 2022The documentary tells the story of the local movement and SNCC organizers who fought not just for voting rights but for Black Power
January 4, 2017As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
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