January 7, 2016Decades-old rules meant to constrain the New York City Police Department from violating the civil rights of innocent citizens will get some meat on their bones to settle lawsuits over spying on...
January 7, 2016Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights, two organizations headquartered in New York City, said they hoped the settlement would prompt de Blasio to speak out against profiling. "...
January 7, 2016..."This settlement is important in light of escalating anti-Muslim rhetoric and hate crimes in the U.S., but at the same time we hope Mayor de Blasio will be more vocal about why the department was...
January 7, 2016A New Jersey business owner who claims he was harmed by the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslim groups praised a settlement Thursday that will strengthen safeguards against illegal...
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
January 15, 2016In the summer of 2002, Chinese security officers arrested Doe VIII (whose name is withheld to protect his family), a practitioner of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong. His arrest was part of...
January 15, 2016Muslims are duly noting New York City’s recent settlement of two high-profile civil rights lawsuits challenging the city’s police surveillance in North Jersey, but a similar suit in New Jersey will...
February 1, 2016Last month, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent conducted a fact-finding mission to the United States to document human rights violations against people of African descent in...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Islamic Center at NYU (ICNYU) invite you to a conversation with Linda Sarsour, Executive Director of the Arab American Association of NY and co...
Updated: March 4, 2016
February 23, 2016President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined his long-awaited plan to close the Guantánamo Bay military detention center in Cuba, but rights groups immediately condemned the proposal as a series of “...
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