On AlterNet: human rights watch
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "human rights watch"
Suzanne Ito, Blog of Rights AlterNet: PEEK. November 16, 2009.
Omar Khadr was captured at 15 and grew up in Gitmo. It's time to give him a fair shake at justice.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. October 31, 2009.
Two cases in the Supreme Court could alter the fates of over 2,500 people serving life without parole for crimes they committed as teenagers.
Roane Carey, The Nation. September 26, 2009.
The Goldstone report has been denounced in Israeli and ignored by the U.S. press, unless you count the NY Daily News, which called it a "blood libel against Israel."
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. September 4, 2009.
With apparent psychos like Garrido wreaking havoc, it's hard for society to be reasonable about the thousands of people have been wrongly swept up by excessive sex offender laws.
Malalai Joya, AlterNet. August 20, 2009.
We Afghans know this election will change nothing. It is merely a show of democracy put on by and for the West, to legitimize its future puppet in Afghanistan.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: World. July 17, 2009.
Does the Big Lie still work? We're seeing it in action.
Katie Mattern, IPS News. July 3, 2009.
Sick and disabled, 55-year old Saeed Hajjarian is one of hundreds of reformists arrested for "orchestrating" the post-election violence in Tehran.
Joseph Nevins, New America Media. June 22, 2009.
Each year the U.S. government deports tens of thousands of non-citizens, to countries to which they often have tenuous ties.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. June 3, 2009.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal testified before the Senate this week, but no one asked him about the skeletons in his closet.
John Byrne, Raw Story. May 6, 2009.
In all, 98 detainees have died while in U.S. hands, with 34 identified as homicides, at least eight of which were tortured to death.
Ali Gharib, AlterNet. January 15, 2009.
In the face of mounting evidence and criticism over the army's use of white phosphorus, the official Israeli line has not changed: Deny, deny, deny.
Brian Cook, In These Times. December 4, 2008.
More than 100 countries have agreed to stop using them. Guess which one hasn't.
Tarah Park, Jurist Legal News and Research AlterNet: War on Iraq. October 31, 2008.
The measure is intended to protect some 17,000 Iraqi prisoners held by the U.S. military upon their transfer to Iraqi authorities.
Ali Gharib, Zainab Mineeia, IPS News. October 31, 2008.
"We're getting out of the detention business," says a U.S. military spokesman.
David Cole, Mother Jones. September 26, 2008.
Support Barack Obama all you want, but don't assume a Democratic president will relinquish the sweeping authority imbued by the Bush administration.
Ali Gharib, IPS News. September 12, 2008.
"Civilian deaths act as a recruiting tool for the Taliban and risk fatally undermining the international effort to provide basic security."
The NationJune 8, 2008.
In a letter to Congress, human rights leaders urge Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to stop funding torture in the so-called "war on terror."
