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Esha and the Anatomy of a Human Rights Movement
Isn’t it a little unrealistic to think writing a letter asking a world leader to free one prisoner will really make…
November 11, 2008
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Battling Impunity in Guatemala
Excavating human remains, using forensic techniques to identify them, hoping the evidence will help bring the killers to justice–it may…
November 11, 2008
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Bali Bombers Executed
On Saturday, November 8, Indonesia executed three men (Amrozi bin H. Nurhasyim, Ali Ghufron, aka Mukhlas, and Imam Samudera) known…
November 10, 2008
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Forced to Leave Home
Every day across the world people make the difficult decision to leave their homes. War, persecution, environmental disaster and poverty…
November 10, 2008
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The Dangerous Act of Raising a Flag
With all the patriotic spirit and flag-waving (and questions about lapel pins) that we’ve been seeing lately surrounding the Presidential…
November 7, 2008
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Amnesty’s Solution to DRC is…More Guns??
I was asked today about Amnesty International’s increasing calls for the UN Security Council to act to reinforce the peacekeeping force…
November 7, 2008
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If I can blog, why can't he?
I can sit in my ergonomic chair as I type, comforted not only by the lower back support, but by the knowledge that…
November 7, 2008
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DRC: Protect Civilians NOW!
While African and UN leaders today discuss the recent spike in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, civilians…
November 7, 2008
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Why Does New Hampshire Have the Death Penalty?
A jury in New Hampshire has just sentenced a white millionaire businessman named John Brooks to life without parole for…
November 6, 2008
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A Success Story on a Small Island
In the middle of all the interest in the American election, there was an election halfway around the world last…
November 6, 2008
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There Is No Justification In Keeping Gitmo Open
Below is my reply on the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Piece of Nov. 4, 2008: Guantanamo Revelation. I served in the military…
November 6, 2008
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Future Danger
In the Philip K. Dick short story (and Steven Spielberg / Tom Cruise film) The Minority Report, a special agency…
November 5, 2008