Steven Salaita Steven Salaita is a Palestinian-American scholar and author of several books, including Israel’s Dead Soul , Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom , and Inter/...
Updated: September 14, 2018
"...This annual ritual [International Human Rights Day] poses an interesting set of questions as to how the U.S. and other Western powers are able to get away with wrapping themselves in the...
Updated: January 2, 2014
August 13, 2015Since the age of 23, Tariq Ba-Odah has been detained at the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay. Never charged with a crime, Ba-Odah went on hunger strike eight years ago to protest his indefinite...
U.S. Tortured Him Knowing History of Psychosis April 19, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, attorneys urged a federal judge to appoint a Mixed Medical Commission to assess whether Guantánamo prisoner...
June 10, 2015Earlier this month, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with other nationally prominent human rights groups, including the ACLU, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch, filed an amicus...
In Fall 2013, Professor Steven Salaita accepted a tenured faculty position in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) after a rigorous, year-long...
Updated: January 30, 2015
2027 Ella Baker Summer Internship From taking on the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk program to challenging indefinite detention and torture at Guantánamo, Israel’s genocide of...
Updated: September 1, 2026
December 12, 2008, New York – This week, the Senate Armed Services Committee released a bi-partisan report almost two years in the making on the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, proving, beyond...
Motion emphasizes that asylum seekers have been seriously injured, raped, and even killed after CBP officials turned them back at U.S. border September 8, 2020, San Diego – Asylum seekers who have...
What are the government’s “kill lists” and why are they illegal? The government has “kill lists” of individuals suspected of terrorism, including U.S. citizens, who are...
Updated: July 17, 2012
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