Abusive governments around the world escalated their attacks against local human rights defenders and other independent monitors during 2009, according to the 2010 edition of Human Rights Watch's annual 'World Report' released here Wednesday. Their attacks have also...
As the US military arrives in Haiti, with only the French and Hugo Chavez raising objections, our foreign policy of global intervention gets a new lease on life – especially on the home front, where it's needed most. Even the hardest heart cannot be closed to the...
RAMALLAH - According to several prominent Palestinians and Israelis, another major Israeli military assault on Gaza, even harsher than last year's Operation Cast Lead, is imminent. But will this change anything, and have the underlying causes behind the previous...
I spent Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday in Washington, D.C., as part of the Witness Against Torture fast, which campaigns to end all forms of torture and has worked steadily for an end to the indefinite detention of people imprisoned in Guantanamo, Bagram, and...
After months of denial, the British government has agreed to release secret documents that lawyers say could prove that MI5 agents were present during the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's torture of a British resident held by the U.S. government for eight years....
