On December 5, 2016, CCR, Palestine Legal, the National Lawyers Guild, the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Bill of...
Updated: August 10, 2018
On February 22, 2017, CCR, Palestine Legal, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation, the Maryland National Lawyers Guild, and the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition...
Updated: October 12, 2017
The Honorable Elaine C. Duke Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Department of Homeland Security Washington, DC 20528 November 16, 2017 Dear Secretary Duke: We are a coalition of 56 civil rights,...
Updated: November 16, 2017
As an organization that stands with social movements and communities resisting oppression, we know that change is possible when artists, storytellers, and lawyers dream together. This Black History...
Updated: February 20, 2020
On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing meeting. CCR Senior Staff Attorney Darius Charney provided oral testimony during the...
Updated: March 28, 2017
As Trump’s campaign promises become reality, the University of California (UC) Regents’ so-called “Intolerance Principles” put vulnerable students at risk for increased attacks, warned CCR and other...
Updated: November 22, 2016
In the 10 years since the tragic attacks of 9/11, much has changed in our country. This anniversary is an opportunity to evaluate those changes, to rededicate ourselves to human rights and civil...
Updated: September 29, 2011
David Hicks David Hicks is an Australian citizen and one of the first men detained at Guantánamo Bay after 9/11. During the five and a half years he spent at Guantánamo, he was subjected to some of...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Hany Ibrahim is one of the original plaintiffs in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Context This is a resource page to help people support the call by the Women of Cancer Alley for a moratorium on new petrochemical industry facilities and closure of existing facilities that refuse...
Updated: May 9, 2019
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