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Elections in Nigeria Must Lead to Protection and Accountability
After a year of conflict spurred by attacks by and on the armed group Boko Haram, Nigerian public officials must take further action to ensure professional, accountable police and military…
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11 Reasons January 11th Must Be Guantanamo’s Last Anniversary
This Sunday, January 11, marks the grim 13th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay. With the momentum President Obama has now, he must make this anniversary…
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“He Was Silent but You Could Tell That He Was in Real Pain”
An eyewitness account of the flogging today of Raif Badawi an activist in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for setting up a website for…
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Torture Without Orders: Hidden in Plain Sight
By Gerald Gray, LCSW, Institute for Redress and Recovery Just released US Torture Papers focus on torture in interrogation, ostensibly for defense of the country. The US also tortures another…
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Throwing Stones from the Glass House: The View of U.S. Human Rights Violations from Iran
[caption id="attachment_56416" align="alignleft" width="300"] Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Marzieh Afkham[/caption] Iranian state-controlled news media have been having an extended field day recently, gleefully reporting on the ever-unfolding news about human…
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An Obligation to Seek Justice for CIA Torture
The Senate torture report alleges several grave abuses – such as use of rectal feeding and rehydration in the absence of medical necessity – that were not authorized by even…
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What John Brennan Should Have Said about the Torture Report
[caption id="attachment_56131" align="alignleft" width="5000"] Director of Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan, December 11, 2014. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] By Naureen Shah, Amnesty International USA Director of Security with Human Rights Today…
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Stop. Tweet. #StopTorture and Demand Reparations in Chicago.
October 24th is United Nations Day –meant to commemorate the passage of the Charter of the United Nations. One of the principles of the UN Charter, enshrined in the preamble,…
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14 Facts about Torture in Mexico
[caption id="attachment_54291" align="alignleft" width="620"] Torture and other ill-treatment is out of control in Mexico. © EPA/Ulises Ruiz Basurto.[/caption] For years Amnesty International has been investigating and recording evidence of torture…
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Israel/Palestine Conflict: Why now is the time to change to a human rights approach
The same day Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General, visited the Gaza Strip saying, “a restrictive occupation that has lasted almost half a century, the continued denial of Palestinian rights and the…