January 3, 2013, New York – In response to President Obama’s signing of the controversial 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the...
Please join CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy in Washington D.C. for a Civil Rights panel addressing the shared realities Arab Americans face with African Americans and about how shared experiences...
Updated: June 12, 2013
This 90-minute panel discussion will feature voices from the academic, media, and policy worlds expressing views on the international dimensions of human rights issues currently playing out in the...
Updated: October 17, 2014
On September 14, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a statement before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Democratic Policy Committee on the Effects of Solitary...
Updated: September 20, 2012
November 12, 2015The University of Illinois ' decision last year to revoke a job offer to controversial professor Steven Salaita will cost more than $2 million, including an $875,000 settlement that trustees approved...
What is the greatest threat to free speech at U.S. universities today? Who is trying to block students from organizing around Palestine on American campuses? How are they doing this? Can professors...
Updated: February 10, 2016
February 25, 2016These are unsettling times for the 91 men clad in orange jumpsuits who whittle away the hours behind Guantanamo Bay’s razor wire fences in southeast Cuba. US President Barack Obama, a Democrat,...
November 1, 2016The federal judge once responsible for granting the New York City Police Department far-reaching authority to surveil Muslim communities after 9/11 has now rejected a settlement stemming from two...
November 1, 2016The federal judge once responsible for granting the New York City Police Department far-reaching authority to surveil Muslim communities after 9/11 has now rejected a settlement stemming from two...
November 14, 2016The stunning upset election of Donald Trump has left many Americans wondering what has become of their country, their party, their government, even their sense of the world. Purple prose has been...
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