There's little doubt that 2011 will be remembered as the year of the Arab Spring, and rightly so. While it's too early to predict the ultimate fate of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and other Middle Eastern countries, the popular uprisings in these nations represented nothing less than an epic battle for...
Posted May 13, 2011 | 17:45:54 (EST)
With the death of Osama bin Laden, torture apologists are having a field day, claiming that the al Qaeda leader's demise was made possible by the kind of illegal interrogation techniques championed by the Bush Administration.
I decided to run this idea by one of our clients, Abdoulaye,...
Posted December 10, 2010 | 12:22:24 (EST)
On December 10, the international community will mark the 60th annual Human Rights Day, celebrating the adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
But how did the world fare this year in the arena of human rights?
On many fronts, the news was dismal, with...
Posted September 5, 2010 | 12:48:48 (EST)
On June 19, Ibio Efrén Caicedo, a teacher and trade union activist in Colombia, was murdered. He was the seventh unionized teacher killed this year in that country's Antioquia region.
Caicedo's murder was hardly an anomaly. More than 100 union activists were killed in 2009, according to a report...
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