The Trump administration’s latest iteration of the Muslim ban, announced on Sunday night, is yet another failed attempt to repackage a white supremacist policy that is unconstitutional and in violation of international law. And despite eliminating Iraq from the list, and adding two non-Muslim-majority countries that have negligible number of…

By Pamela Spees Barbara Blaine, founder and former president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, died on Sunday, September 24, 2017. She was only 61. We are devastated by the loss of our friend and colleague. CCR’s work with SNAP launched in September 2011 with the…

CCR has a long history of challenging overbroad and warrantless government surveillance, something that has ballooned since 9/11. Last week, we filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant certiorari in a case that could decide the constitutionality of such surveillance — a decision will have broad implications…

By Vincent Warren Our hearts go out to the families of those who lost their lives and were injured over the weekend in Charlottesville. We also want to deeply thank all who went to the streets to counter protest this particular expression of white supremacy. …

BAJI Black at the Border 2017 Delegation. Photo credit: BAJI By Stephanie Llanes Two weeks ago, on the 102nd anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, I attended the Black Alliance for Just Immigration’s (BAJI) Black-centered delegation to the U.S. Southern border in San Diego, California. This historic convening brought together Black…

On July 23, Lufthansa Airlines prevented five members of an interfaith delegation to Israel and Palestine from boarding their flight from Washington, D.C., to Tel Aviv, reportedly following instructions from the Israeli government. The delegation of peace activists planned to meet with interfaith organizations, grassroots activists, and human rights groups…

By Aliya Hana Hussain Omar Khadr should have never been brought to Guantánamo. At 15 years old, he was just a child when he was captured, and his 10-year detention, prosecution for purported war crimes, and torture by the U.S. government was unlawful. Yet 15 years later, it is Canada…

By Angelo Guisado President Trump’s fanatical obsession with erecting a wall along the U.S. Southern Border — for which, of course, Mexico would famously assume the role of benefactor — has yet to result in any actual construction. But last week, the House Appropriations Committee released a Homeland Security bill…

By Dominic Renfrey As the more than 1500 Palestinian hunger strikers held in Israeli prisons end a 37th day on strike to demand better detention conditions, supporters of Palestinians’ human rights must now rely on the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, to do what the U.S. …