On Thursday, September 3rd at 12:00pm ET , the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will honor CCR Board member, human rights scholar, and activist Professor Gay McDougall . Ms...
Updated: August 30, 2020
The United States is not only failing to prevent genocide, but is complicit
December 3, 2015A Yemeni prisoner detained for over 13 years at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was reportedly held there partly as a result of mistaken identity. U.S. officials determined that Mustafa al-...
May 16, 2019...“The thing all these people have in common is their activism on behalf of freedom for Palestinian people,” said Diala Shamas, a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a legal...
October 13, 2015A coalition of Muslim groups can pursue a civil rights lawsuit that accuses New York City police of conducting secret surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey without suspicion of criminal activity, a...
October 14, 2015A US court said Tuesday that a civil rights lawsuit accusing New York City police of improperly singling out Muslims for surveillance could proceed, reversing a lower court’s decision last year to...
October 13, 2015A coalition of Muslim groups can pursue a civil rights lawsuit that accuses New York City police of conducting secret surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey without suspicion of criminal activity, a U...
Join us for CCR First Wednesday on February 3, 2016. We will begin our two-part First Wednesday series addressing the rise of Islamophobia in the U.S., and discussing two landmark cases that...
Updated: February 1, 2016
April 2014"Ten years ago, the world got its first glimpse of images that would forever tarnish the United States' reputation for how it conducts its wars. On April 28, 2004, a "60 Minutes"...
February 23, 2016President Obama, hoping to finally meet his 2008 campaign pledge, sent Congress a plan Tuesday to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and transfer up to 60 terrorism suspects to a yet unnamed U.S. prison...
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