NY Reentry Roundtable Focusing on issues of: Housing, Job Placement, Reuniting Families, Political Participation, Parole, and Employment Guest Speakers include: Professsor M. Chris Fabricant,...
Updated: February 4, 2011
Unheard Voices of 9/11 Community Hearing As the 10-year anniversary of September 11th approaches, this community hearing will discuss the impact of 9/11 on the Muslim, Arab, Sikh, and South Asian...
Updated: August 19, 2011
CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol will speak on the opening plenary of the Animal Rights National Conference titled Activist Repression: Government and corporate repression of animal and...
Updated: June 28, 2013
CCR proudly supports the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) in presenting their fourth ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism to Bryan Stevenson, the founder and Executive Director of the...
Updated: April 17, 2014
April 2009Amid calls for torture prosecutions, former Bush administration officials Friday slammed President Barack Obama's release of terror interrogation memos, warning the move would fuel "timidity and...
April 2009In an interview that aired Wednesday night on the CBS Evening News, Attorney General Eric Holder suggested to Katie Couric that the Obama administration is unlikely to depart dramatically from the...
May 2010While Ms. Kagan, 50, lacks the judicial paper trail of the other justices, statements she made as part of her 2009 nomination to solicitor general are sure to both appease and rankle conservative and...
February 2012Peter Weiss, Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses an upcoming Supreme Court case with many potential ramifications for American and international law, and for corporate...
February 2012Two years ago, the Supreme Court said corporations were like people and had the same free-speech rights to spend unlimited sums on campaigns ads. Now, in a major test of human rights law, the...
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"...
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