Don't Repackage Gitmo!
Michael Ratner & Jules Lobel : Guantanamo Bay
Shutting down Guantánamo is long overdue. We shouldn't recreate it by another name.
2008
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No Gitmo, No Torture
CBS : Geneva Convention
President-elect Obama speaks with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft about the need to restore America's moral standing in the world.
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UN: Hope that America Rejoins the World
Barbara Crossette : United Nations
Quiet relief, an undercurrent of caution and hope for a new approach to human rights, the environment and the problems of the poor.
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Bearing Witness: The Afghan Tragedy
Malalai Joya : Afghanistan
Seven years after the US invasion, Afghanistan is still chained to the fundamentalist warlords and the Taliban. Women and children suffer the most.
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Olympic Trials
Dave Zirin : Sports
If China's leaders believe they've released enough steam for a smooth Olympics, they could be in for a surprise.
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Women's Advocate Is UN's New Human Rights Chief
Barbara Crossette : United Nations
Despite the Bush Administration's scramble to scuttle her nomination because she is--gasp!--a feminist, a South African judge is named high commissioner for human rights.
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Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes Now
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Torture
Some Democrats are pushing to let bygones be bygones and concentrate instead on solving problems of the future. Here's why we can't let the Bush Administration off the hook.
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The Bureaucracy of Rape
Barbara Crossette : United Nations
Pressured by the Bush Administration, the United Nations issues a ringing declaration and solicits pledges that decry rape as a weapon of war. How about actually doing something?
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Rape as a Weapon of War
Slavenka Drakulic : United Nations
The UN resolution designating rape as a weapon of war is historic, but provides no legal remedy for wartime victims of sexual violence.
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Bill Ford, Remembered
Scott Greathead & Michael Posner : El Salvador
The brother of one of four US churchwomen murdered in El Salvador used his legal skills to bring their killers to justice.
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Shirin Ebadi: Don't Attack Iran
Robert Dreyfuss : Iran
The Nobel Prize-winning activist says US threats, regime-change rhetoric and efforts to promote democracy only give Iran's leaders an excuse to intensify repression.
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Youth Protests Outshine Olympic Torch
Cora Currier : Student Movements
Tibetan-led youth groups are proving the power of grassroots organizing with their highly effective Beijing Olympics protests.
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Olympic Flame Out
The Editors : Sports
Boycotts of the Beijing Olympics are easy. What's harder is moving China towards meaningful progress on human rights.
2007
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Rights of Passage
How can momentum be restored to the struggle for human rights? Begin by drawing the world's religions into the conversation.
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Our Inalienable Human Rights
Despite their political differences, Americans are strikingly united on the value of human rights, according to a new poll sponsored by The Nation.
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Lawyers Join Monks to Defy Myanmar's 'Forced Politics'
Lawyers in Myanmar joined forces this week with Buddhist monks to demand national reconciliation and an end to human rights abuse.
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Getting Away With Murder
The brutal murder of a bishop and its violent aftermath exemplify post-civil war Guatemala's descent into chaos
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Harvard's Humanitarian Hawks
Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights doesn't officially favor the war in Iraq, so why is it helping Gen. David Petraeus devise a counter-insurgency doctrine?
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A War in the Heart of India
Maoists say they're fighting for the invisible tribal peoples of India. Are they terrorists, or the product of a corrupt and unjust system?
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Hong Kong, Ten Years After
Ten years of Chinese rule in Hong Kong hasn't resulted in severe human rights abuses, but full democracy has yet to emerge.
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The Price of a Life
Sure, the US government values the lives of innocents killed in combat. Just how much depends on whether they died in New York, Afghanistan or Iraq.
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On the Genealogy of Morals
Inventing Human Rights traces the roots of humanitarian concern back to the eighteenth century. But there's a world of difference between then and now.
2006
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We'll Always Have Geneva
The Military Comissions Act of 2006 gives the Geneva Conventions a bold, new American twist. Here's a look at the bill's final markup.
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Israel Lobby Watch
The Human Rights Watch reports that were sharply critical of Israel's killing of civilians in Lebanon represent the latest battle for Jewish hearts and minds in the ideological war over the Middle East.
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A Right to Food?
Frances Moore Lappé : Social & Economic Rights
Hunger is a violation of basic rights: a right to food, but more important, Bolivian and Brazilian experience suggests, a right to power.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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