Tag Archives: Human Rights
Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture
Torture on Trial: Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture by David SwansonPublished in the May / June 2012 Humanisthttp://thehumanist.org/may-june-2012/torture-on-trial-legal-and-humane-frameworks-for-opposing-torture/ Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was
Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture
I’ve participated in countless nonviolent protests of torture, including congressional lobbying, panels and seminars, online petition writing, bird-dogging of politicians and judges and professors. I’ve met victims and told their stories and reviewed their books. But I had never spent a day
Get out, you don’t belong here
When I recently heard the sickening news of mass deportation of ethnic Amharas form the southern regional state, my stomach flipped and somehow I was catapulted back to my boyhood when I was a student in Awassa Comboni Elementary School.
Commemorating More Than 18 years of Terrorism in Central Africa
In a remarkable development, this is the first time in the history of the ‘Rwanda genocide’ trials or related Rwanda asylum hearings where Pentagon satellite photographs have been produced as evidence, and the first time that the existence of satellite
Mubarak’s ‘Consigliere’ Runs for Office
It’s deja vu all over again: Last week, Omar Suleiman, the spymaster and domestic enforcer for ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, announced that he would “bow to popular will” and throw his hat in the ring for the presidency. Suleiman’s
Violence continues in Syria despite ceasefire deadline as regime troops begin …
Presenter, Male #1 In Tunisia, opposition lawmakers of the Founding Assembly organized a march on Habib Bourguiba Avenue in protest to the Interior Ministry’s ban on holding demonstrations on the street. The protestors also condemned what they described as an
EXPORTING "AMERICAN VALUES": Washington’s “Human Rights” Fraud
“I do think we are on the right side of history, aligning ourselves with people’s aspirations for freedom, democracy, universal human rights,” US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared in a recent interview with the Economist magazine. Describing Washington’s role
Syria accepts Annan peace plan, but clashes continue
Syrian state television broadcast footage of President Bashar-al-Assad making a rare public appearance in the Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs, the heart of the uprising and where his crackdown has been most brutal. ITN’s John Ray reports. Syria accepted a
Omar Suleiman…dark history hinders his presidency quest
By Omar ElmershediSaudi Gazette With increasing expectations of a deal to be struck between the ruling Armed Forces Supreme Council and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, as many believe will happen, Omar Suleiman is the militarist candidate. Diplomatic commentaries reveal that
The Human Propensity for War James Rodney Ledwich
The Human Propensity for WarJames Rodney LedwichMarch 29, 2012 This historic panorama of nearly a century of war explains how and why war has become more murderous over time despite efforts toward peace, concluding that the reasons for going to
