CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren Speaks at the United Nations on the Global Struggle Against Racism

On Wednesday, March 26, 2008, CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren spoke at the United Nations as part of its panel discussion "What Would Martin Say? Human Rights and the Global Struggle against Racism Forty Years after the Death of Martin Luther King Jr." 

The panel was part of the UN's new Human Rights Dialogue Series, which is a 12-part monthly series of discussions at the UN Headquarters, leading up to the celebration on December 10, 2008 of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

To watch a video of the event, please go here.

Other panelists included:

• Asli Bali, American-Arab Discrimination Committee
• Yael Berda, Human rights lawyer in Israel
• Reginald Shuford, American Civil Liberties Union
• Patricia Williams, Columbia University, School of Law
• H.E. Raymond Wolfe, Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations

The panel was moderated by Craig Mokhiber, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. 

The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.

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