October 14, 2015Pope Francis had to backtrack after he outraged the victims of pedophile clerics by speaking sympathetically, during his trip to the United States, about how the scandal had affected bishops and...
December 11, 2015A year after the Senate Select Committee released its declassified executive summary of the torture program, the grim political reality in the United States is undeniable. Through its inaction, the U...
January 15, 2016In the summer of 2002, Chinese security officers arrested Doe VIII (whose name is withheld to protect his family), a practitioner of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong. His arrest was part of...
March 8, 2016The Israeli government is seeking immunity for former Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak in a civil lawsuit filed last October by the parents of Furkan Doğan , an American teenager killed on May...
September 26, 2016The United Nations Human Rights Council is underway in Geneva, with diplomats and experts covering such important topics as the rights of indigenous peoples, enforced disappearance, and the critical...
November 28, 2016“Israel’s closure of the Gaza Strip has been disproportionate, discriminatory and not justified by military purposes: in fact, the current restrictions on movement of goods and persons into and out...
On November 22, Palestinian human rights groups urged the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to examine the Israeli closure of the Gaza Strip, which has denied two million Palestinians a...
Updated: September 26, 2018
December 9, 2016Today marks the two-year anniversary of the release of the Senate Torture Report Executive Summary detailing some of the barbarity and brutality of the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation and detention...
May 31, 2017Seven years ago today, Israeli commandos attacked a six-boat flotilla en route to Gaza, to break the Israeli siege and to deliver humanitarian supplies to Palestinians effectively cut-off from the...
October 10, 2017The Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow in Jesner v. Arab Bank ostensibly on the question of whether the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) applies to corporations. There is a risk, however, that the...
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