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The Difference Between Justice and Impunity is Action

I just got back from an amazing week in Chicago, and I was trying to decide whether I should use…

March 9, 2009

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Internet Co&039;s: How about one day without censorship?

Reporters Without Borders (RWB) and Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) yesterday called on U.S. Internet companies Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! to…

March 7, 2009

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Report on Palestinian Health Care released

Lancet, a British public health journal, released yesterday a series of reports entitled Health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories which…

March 6, 2009

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Senate Hearing on Accountability

Senator Pat Leahy (Democrat, Vermont) told today’s Judiciary Committee hearing on “Getting to the Truth through a Nonpartisan Commission of…

March 5, 2009

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Great animated short on blockade of Gaza

Gisha, Legal Center for the Freedom of Movement, an Israeli non-profit organization, produced this powerful animated short, 'Closed Zone'.   They tapped…

March 5, 2009

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Why Prop 8 Impacts All of Us

Until I attended law school, my strongest exposure to court rooms came from an old "L.A. Law" addiction.  (If you…

March 5, 2009

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Much Ado About Blackwater Part II: Xe (the next generation?)

Just as it seemed everyone knew about Blackwater and its laundry list of scandals, the company pulled an all-too-common move…

March 4, 2009

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Transparency Still an Unfulfilled Promise by President Obama

The Obama Administration has already taken several laudable steps to separate itself from illegal policies and practices of its predecessor,…

March 4, 2009

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A step towards justice for Darfur?

The ICC's pre-trial chamber has issued an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir, the head of state of Sudan. Already, the government…

March 4, 2009

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Death Penalty Abolition in Maryland: UPDATE 2

The Maryland Senate this morning voted for a “compromise” on the bill formerly known as the repeal bill.  In this…

March 4, 2009

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Bashir Behind Bars?

I welcome today's history-making announcement of an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir.  Since 2003 I have been part of…

March 4, 2009

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Death Penalty abolition in Maryland is moving forward

By procedural votes of 25-22 and then 24-23, the Maryland Senate brought the death penalty repeal bill to the floor…

March 3, 2009