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HIGHLIGHT FROM THE CENTER
CHRGJ Faculty Director, Smita Narula, co-authors Huffington Post article "'High Tech, Low Pay: Let the Workers Behind Our Electronics Be Heard"
August 4, 2011- Apple may be reporting record company sales in 2011, but one thing the company is not making noise about are the details surrounding a string of recent tragedies at the Chinese factory where so much of Apple's current success story is based. The explosion in May at the Foxconn plant in the city of Chengdu in Southwestern China -- where Apple's highly coveted iPad 2 is produced -- has reignited concerns among corporate accountability activists. That explosion, which killed three workers and injured 16 others, urges us to ask once again: who are the people behind our beloved hi-tech products? And how can we "lean back" with our shiny new information devices while these electronic sweatshop workers are treated as disposable as last year's iPhone?
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PRESS RELEASE
CHRGJ Welcomes Release of U.S. Strategy on Preventing Violent Extremism
August 3, 2011—The Global Justice Clinic of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School
of Law welcomes the White House’s release of its strategy Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States, but expresses concern about the extent to which it co-opts a wide range of community
engagement tools, including social services, to prevent violent extremism and its emphasis on Muslim communities. As demonstrated in the Center’s July 2011 163-page report A Decade Lost: Locating Gender in U.S. Counter-Terrorism, this approach of defining community integration as counter-terrorism—recently rejected in the United Kingdom after being in place since 2007—further securitizes engagement with Muslim communities and makes women in these communities unsafe.
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CHRGJ Report "Targeted and Entrapped" cited in Counterpunch,"Droneland"
July 18, 2011- A new continent has emerged on our atlas: it is Droneland. The borders of Droneland run from Libya to Somalia to Yemen to Afghanistan to Pakistan. The Reaper and the Predator stalk the air, driven by young people in distant bases. A necklace of American power, these bases throttle the globe in a silent embrace. The New America Foundation estimates that the U. S. drone attacks in Pakistan alone have killed between 1,579 and 2,490 civilians since 2004. Last year, the UN investigator on extrajudicial killings Philip Alston noted that these attacks might very well be illegal. The UK-based Reprieve is seeking an international arrest warrant against John Rizzo, acting general counsel for the CIA, who told Newsweek in February that he approved at least one drone strike per month. This would be a minor earthquake on Droneland, if the accusation were not shelved somewhere in the topsy-turvy offices of Scotland Yard.
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PRESS RELEASE
CHRGJ: Women and Sexual Minorities are Invisible Victims of U.S. Counter-Terrorism
July 18, 2011—The U.S. government must take steps to stop women and sexual minorities around the world from becoming invisible victims of its counter-terrorism policies, said the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU School of Law today, as it released a groundbreaking report on the 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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