On April 28, 2016, CCR and Palestine Legal sent copies of their report, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the U.S. , to one hundred lawmakers in five states who were...
Updated: October 9, 2017
While there has been recent criticism of those taking the position that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, there is a long history of human rights scholarship and legal analysis that...
Updated: October 5, 2016
On September 8, CCR board chair Katherine Franke testified on behalf of CCR in front of the New York City Council Committee on Contracts regarding Resolution No. 1058-A , which unfairly condemns the...
Updated: September 15, 2016
CCR joined New York City-based advocates and community members on July 12, 2016 in a meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association , Maina...
Updated: October 26, 2016
CCR and Palestine Legal provided a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in advance of his March 2017 report to the UN Human...
Updated: January 4, 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
As part of a continuing effort to challenge bills that threaten core First Amendment-protected activity in support of Palestinian rights, CCR and other rights organizations have engaged in advocacy...
Updated: December 14, 2018
Parallel timeline showing events in Awad v Fordham University and Palestine Fordham Denied Student SJP Club Application then Disciplined Students for Protesting Decision CCR and Palestine Legal are...
Updated: August 6, 2019
CCR, Palestine Legal, and 20 other rights organizations put out a call on December 9, 2016, International Human Rights Defenders Day, to demand protection for and an end to threats against,...
Updated: March 15, 2017
The Center for Constitutional Rights and four other civil society organizations wrote an open letter to the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, on the 37 th day of a hunger strike by Palestinians...
Updated: May 23, 2017
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