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Statement in Solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives Date: June 10, 2020 YASIN OZTURK/ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES The Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice is in solidarity with CUNY Law’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA), the whole CUNY Law community, and the Black Lives Matter movement across the country and globally in the fight for racial justice. We condemn state-sanctioned violence and demand accountability for the unconscionable killings of Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and every victim of anti-Black and anti-LGBT+ violence. COVID-19 has brought greater attention to structural racism and [...]

Introducing: 2020 Sorensen Center Scholar-in-Residence, Wolfgang Kaleck Date: January 8, 2020 Wolfgang Kaleck, founder and General Secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin, has joined the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice at City University of New York School of Law as  2020 Scholar-in-Residence. Throughout the spring semester, he will lead a series of human rights seminars on a range of topics, including transnational human rights litigation, social movements, and business and human rights. The series kicks off on Wednesday, February 5 with a discussion on “Global Social Justice is [...]

25 Years Since President Mandela and Ted Sorensen with Paul, Weiss Developed South Africa Free Election Fund (SAFE) Date: July 20, 2018 July 2018, marks the 100 years since Nelson Mandela was born and 25 years since he joined forces with Ted Sorensen and Paul, Weiss to build voter education and mobilization capacity, in advance of the first democratic elections in South Africa in April 1994. Nelson Mandela described the purpose of SAFE as a “voter education campaign, which involves the 18 million people who have never voted before, irrespective of their political persuasion.” The impressive effort [...]