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or Ligong searchnsearchthe issue. The 163 page report—A Decade Lost: Locating Gender in U.S. Counter-Terrorism—is the first account of how U.S. counter-terrorism efforts have undermined the rights of women and sexual minorities. These policies have also failed to protect women and sexual minorities from terrorism, despite the Obama Administration’s position that women’s inequality threatens national security.
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CHRGJ Senior Research Fellow and Advocacy Fellow cited in New York Magazine,"Little Gitmo"
On August 4, 2004, Yassin Aref was walking along West Street in a run-down part of downtown Albany. It was about 11 p.m., and he had just finished delivering evening prayer at the storefront mosque around the corner, where he had been the imam for nearly four years. Caught up in his thoughts, he might not have noticed the car parked across from his two-story building if a man hadn’t called out his name.
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CHRGJ Faculty Director Margaret Satterthwaite cited in Christian Science Monitor,"A new way to measure human rights may revolutionize global advocacy"
...Focusing on the “core rights” of adequate housing, education, food, healthy, work, and social security, SERF takes a substantive and contextual approach that asks, firstly, the extent to which a nation’s people are enjoying these rights and, secondly, the extent to which countries are feasibly obligated to fulfill these rights. In order to deal with the immense variety of governments around the world, SERF is relying on GDP as a proxy for state capacity, something which NYU law professor Margaret Satterthwaite suggested may be problematic at the panel on Friday...
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CHRGJ Briefing Paper cited in Examiner.com,"Sexual assault legal experts mobilize in Haiti"
As the images of Haiti begin to fade from the media, filthy living conditions and the psychological aftershocks remain. In the midst of Haiti’s attempt to rebuild, a new epidemic crisis emerges and that is the ongoing sexual violence directed against women and girls. Releasing a strategic plan for family housing for an estimated 1.3 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who occupy 1,000 camps in the region, the government of Haiti is beginning a new focus in the handling of sexual violence with promises to push legislative measures throughout the system. The goal is to bring greater security to all women and girls in Haiti.
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CHRGJ Briefing Paper cited in WNYC News,"Use of Informants in Terror Cases May Create Entrapment, NYU Report Claims"
The use of informants in high-profile terror cases constitutes a form of entrapment that targets Muslim Americans, a new report issued by New York University's School of Law charges. The report argues FBI and NYPD informants incited violence during circumstances in which there otherwise would not have been, pointing to three terror cases: Newburgh 4, Shahawar Matin Siraj and the Fort Dix 5. The report was issued by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University's School of Law.
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CHRGJ Briefing Paper cited in Colorlines, "Report Documents Fake Terror Threats Concocted by FBI and NYPD"
May 23, 2011- Shahawar Matin Siraj immigrated to Queens, N.Y., from Pakistan with his family when he was 16. Siraj began working at his uncle’s Islamic bookshop in Queens where, soon after 9/11, an undercover police officer began coming around and engaging Siraj in conversations about politics and religion. Whatever Siraj said to the officer in those conversations, it was enough for NYPD to soon assign another undercover officer to befriend the young man as well.
That second officer showed Siraj images of victims of American wars in the Middle East and of Guantanamo Bay, and began making up stories about secret terrorist organizations inside the U.S. Over the next year, the undercover agent prodded Siraj to devise a plan to detonate a bomb in New York City, as a means of responding to the U.S. government’s violence. Siraj first agreed but eventually refused to actively participate in the plot, saying, “No, I don’t want to do it.” But after more repeated prodding of the young man, Siraj finally agreed to act as a lookout for others.
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CHRGJ Briefing Paper cited in Sign On San Diego, "Local task force fights terrorism on many fronts"
May 22, 2011- They do some of the most important, clandestine law enforcement work in San Diego County, yet most of their dealings never make headlines.The more than 100 investigators, FBI agents and intelligence analysts who are part of the local FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force are fine with that because it means they’re doing their job — thwarting terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.
“We disrupt things day in and day out,” said FBI Special Agent Matt Brown, a supervisor in the multi-agency task force. “The vast majority of what we do is prevention.” While the task force’s mission has remained unchanged since forming 13 years ago, how that mission is accomplished has evolved considerably in the past decade following the terrorism attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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CHRGJ Briefing Paper cited in Philly.com, "Monday appeal for Fort Dix Five"
May 22, 2011- It's an uphill battle, they privately concede, and given the evidence and tenor of the times, they are decided underdogs.But lawyers for the Fort Dix Five will get a chance Monday to convince a federal appellate panel that their clients' convictions should be overturned or, alternatively, that the five imprisoned terrorists should be granted new trials.
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CHRGJ Briefing Paper cited in LA Times, "Muslims targeted in U.S. terrorism cases, report says"
May 19, 2011- U.S. government tactics in pursuing domestic terrorism cases target and entrap Muslim community members and fail to enhance public safety, according to a report released Wednesday by a human rights center at New York University's law school.
The government's use of surveillance, paid informants and invented terrorism plots prompts human rights concerns, according to the report by NYU's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. The authors examined three high-profile cases in New York and New Jersey that they said raised questions about the role of the FBI and New York Police Department in creating the perception of a homegrown terrorism threat.
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CHRGJ Briefing Paper cited in Jadaliyya, "Entrapment and Racialization: The 'Homegrown' Canard"
May 18, 2011- A new report out today from New York University School of Law’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) describes how American counterterrorism efforts have singled out Muslim Americans by “sending paid, trained informants into mosques and Muslim communities.” The report finds that more than 200 people have been prosecuted in terrorism-related cases – cases which have been proudly trumpeted as hallmarks of a successful counterterrorism program. Recently, however, questions about police entrapment have become more urgent. CHRGJ speaks with former FBI agents, lawmakers, and advocacy organizations who all worry that the police are creating their own “homegrown” terrorism plots, “foiling” them for the cameras, and sending Muslim Americans to prison. This report arrives at a very timely moment, as a controversy over a “sting” operation like those described in the report is unfolding right now.
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PRESS RELEASE
U.S. Must Stop Targeting Muslims in Counterterrorism Investigations
May 11, 2011- The U.S. government must stop its discriminatory targeting of Muslim communities in counter-terrorism investigations said the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU School of Law today, as it released a report on the issue. The government’s use of intrusive surveillance, untrained paid informants, and manufactured terrorism plots raise serious human rights concerns that must immediately be addressed, said the group.
The Report, Targeted and Entrapped: Manufacturing the “Homegrown Threat” in the United States, critically examines three high-profile domestic terrorism prosecutions and raises serious questions about the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in constructing the specter of “homegrown” terrorism through the deployment of paid informants to encourage terrorist plots in Muslim communities.
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CHRGJ Senior Research Scholar & Advocacy Fellow Anma Akbar in Huffington Post Op Ed, "Abusing Immigration Law to Target Muslims"
May 18, 2011- Imagine being thrown in jail in the United States for over four years, not because you had violated any laws, or even because the government thought you were about to commit a crime, but because government officials believed that you may engage in criminal acts at some point in the future. This is the story of Tareq Abu Fayad, a 24-year-old Palestinian who came to the United States in 2007 on a valid immigrant visa to be reunited with his family. And Abu Fayad doesn't stand alone. He is one of an untold number of Muslim immigrants deported, detained and denied immigration benefits on the basis of religious practices and associations, political beliefs and country of origin.
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