Stories by Joanne Mariner
Joanne Mariner is a New York-based human rights attorney and deputy director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch.
Bush's latest plo: call torture "alternative set of interrogation procedures" and get Congress to legalize it.
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
One of the government's main arguments for preserving Guantanamo is that the base harbors dangerous "enemy combatants." But more than thirty percent of the detainees were arrested far from any combat zone.
Posted on Jul 18, 2006
Bush has agreed to pass McCain's anti-torture ammendment. But he's added enough loopholes that the measure is also now a pro-torture ammendment.
Posted on Dec 22, 2005
Will Senator John McCain succeed in getting his anti-torture ammendment to become law or will the president's veto trump justice, fairness and human dignity?
Posted on Oct 12, 2005
In a rush to deport foreigners, the U.K. is sending them back to countries that have a proven record of torturing prisoners.
Posted on Aug 22, 2005
Colombia's approach to demobilizing illegal armed groups may amount to amnesty for some of the country's most notorious drug kingpins and vicious murderers.
Posted on Feb 22, 2005
Why is an American citizen being held without charges in Saudi Arabia? And why does the U.S. State Department seem to have a vested interest in keeping him there?
Posted on Jan 2, 2005
Sneaking into "liberated" Darfur, an American finds people dying of disease, hunger and international apathy.
Posted on Dec 13, 2004
With Chief Justice William Rehnquist gravely ill, Antonin Scalia is next in line to be Chief Justice. Welcome to the new anti-abortion, anti-gay-rights, pro-school prayer Supreme Court, where extremism is commonplace.
Posted on Nov 11, 2004
Are terrorists criminals or are they soldiers in an enemy force? In last week's rulings, the Supreme Court refused to answer this and other questions, but they gave hints of their positions.
Posted on Jul 6, 2004
In Florida, thousands of children are up for adoption, but gay parents need not apply.
Posted on Feb 3, 2004
A generation of women has come of age under Roe v. Wade, but the right to a safe and legal abortion remains under threat.
Posted on Jan 22, 2004
The U.S. cast the lone vote against a UN resolution calling for widespread public access to drugs in global epidemics such as HIV/AIDS.
Posted on Nov 26, 2003
Roosevelt's 'love them and kill them' approach is the obvious antecedent of a new endangered species policy that the Bush Administration announced this summer.
Posted on Oct 17, 2003
The passage of a new law in Israel means thousands of Israeli Arabs will have to choose between their country or their spouse.
Posted on Aug 15, 2003
Zacarias Moussaoui's fatal flaw may be his French nationality.
Posted on Jul 21, 2003
Language matters, especially for defendants. What we call people determines what legal rights they have.
Posted on Jul 9, 2003
The Supreme Court rules that prisoners don't have the right to see their families.
Posted on Jun 27, 2003
