Iran’s latest crackdown on dissent is fueled by UN silence over past crimes
Among analysts and commentators who have been paying attention to the state of affairs in the Islamic Republic of Iran, there is widespread agreement that the fallout from recent protests, which spread...
View ArticleUN should help end impunity in Iran and throughout the world
In 1996, on behalf of the Spanish President Allende Foundation, I filed a criminal complaint in Spain, under the principles of universal jurisdiction, against Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet and other...
View ArticlePorn consumption is contributing to child sex trafficking epidemic
The systematic buying and selling of young boys and girls for sex is growing at a shocking rate in the United States and around the globe.Recently, the body of 17-year-old Mikayla Mitchell of Sherman,...
View ArticleUN investigators on Myanmar put Facebook in crosshairs
United Nations human rights experts who are investigating potential Rohingya genocide in Myanmar say that Facebook had a role in spreading hate speech in the country. Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the...
View ArticleSex trafficking bill necessary step to protect women, children from enslavement
With the passage by the Senate of the Allow States and Victims to Fight Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), Congress has come down decisively on the side of exploited women and children, and against website...
View ArticleGina Haspel is the wrong choice to head the CIA
Much concern has been raised, for good reason, about President Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Haspel allegedly was involved in reckless, illegal torture...
View ArticleMonica Crowley: Syrian airstrikes show Trump has learned from history
The first thing you notice is the silence.Upon arrival at Auschwitz, you see the infamous inscription above the main entrance gate, “Arbeit Mach Frei” (“Work sets you free,” a “cynical lie” as it’s...
View ArticleWe should oppose Gina Haspel's CIA nomination because of her torture...
On May 9, Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearings for director of the CIA will begin. The outcome of her nomination will send a clear signal to the world about where the United States stands on torture. We...
View ArticleTrump brushes off Kim's human rights record, saying a lot of others have...
President Trump is brushing aside concerns about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s human-rights abuses as he seeks to broker a nuclear deal with the young autocrat. Pressed by Fox New's Brett Baier in...
View ArticleShould President Trump, like President Obama, forsake human rights in pursuit...
In the biblical narrative, King Solomon, described as the wisest of men, was confronted by two women who shared a house. They each claimed to be the mother of an infant boy while insisting that another...
View ArticleTop LGBT group projects message onto Presidential Palace in Helsinki ahead of...
A leading LGBT advocacy group blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump over ongoing crimes against LGBT people by projecting messages on the building where they will meet on Monday....
View ArticleFighting for human rights makes both moral and business sense
President Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly made little mention of democracy, human rights and rule of law — traditional American values — except to attack the U.N. Human Rights Council and...
View ArticleMnuchin: ‘Premature to comment on sanctions’ against Saudi Arabia
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday that it is premature to speak of potential U.S. sanctions against Saudi Arabia over the death of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.“It would be...
View ArticleKhashoggi editor: Washington Post will urge US officials ‘to do more’ on...
The editor for Washington Post contributor and dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Sunday that the newspaper will urge the U.S. to do more on Saudi Arabia.Karen Attiah told CNN's "Reliable...
View ArticleState Dept. official: China holding 800k Muslim minorities in internment camps
State Department official Scott Busby told senators this week that China has detained at least 800,000 Muslim minorities in internment camps. "The U.S. government assesses that since April 2017,...
View ArticleUS sanctions three North Korean officials
The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday sanctioned three senior North Korean officials for alleged human rights abuses.The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated North Korean state security...
View ArticleMatthew Hedges affair should be a wake-up call for universities
The details coming from British academic Matthew Hedges about his six-month detention in the United Arab Emirates are harrowing. Hedges, who had been arrested in Dubai last May after completing a...
View ArticleChina knocks US record after criticism of human rights abuses
China on Thursday knocked the human rights record of the U.S. one day after the State Department slammed China over its own human rights record. China’s State Council said the U.S. has a “flawed and...
View ArticleWhose human rights count? Trump administration deemphasizes abuse of women...
Every year, the State Department delivers a series of country-level human rights reports. What is included reveals a great deal about an administration’s priorities. This year the Trump Administration...
View ArticleLike the Warmbiers, former CIA detainees deserve chance to seek justice
In the headlines again recently was the tragic case of University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, when it was disclosed that North Korea billed the United States $2 million for his medical treatment...
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