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- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission that Mary Anastasia O’Grady extensively covers in The Truth Comes Out in Honduras (July 25, 2011) was initiated by Honduran government officials who have been behind ongoing serious human rights… Read more >>
- What will we say when other governments follow our example by providing immunity from prosecution to torturers?
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- This article was originally posted on www.jadaliyya.com on Father's Day, June 19, 2011/
This month marks five years since three men who were never charged with any crime died in US custody at Guantánamo under circumstances that… Read more >>
- CCR's Vince Warren and Laura Raymond blogging from the field in Haiti:
Today the Center for Constitutional Rights delegation in Haiti visited the Barbancourt II displacement camp in Port-Au-Prince. This camp is home to 310 families… Read more >>
- Apparently, former president, George W. Bush does “cut and run.” On February 7, 2011, two torture victims were to have filed criminal complaints for torture against former president George W. Bush in Geneva. Bush… Read more >>
- In recent remarks on U.S.-Latin American relations made at the Brookings Institute, Arturo Valenzuela, a State Department official with responsibility for the region, commented that Honduras, two years removed from a coup that U.S.… Read more >>
- Question: How does a mentally unstable man who was kicked out of school and had run-ins with the law buy an assault weapon?
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- Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire during the night in New Orleans. They were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse… Read more >>
- "Obama’s Liberty Problem: Why Indefinite Detention by Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People," by Bill Quigley and Vince Warren
The right to liberty is one of the foundation rights of a free people. The… Read more >>
- Last week I blogged about concerns that "the U.S. government is likely manipulating the Swedish allegations [against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange] for purposes of extraditing Assange to the U.S." (I also wrote that the Center… Read more >>
- Today marks the one year anniversary of the assassination of Walter Trochez, a human rights, LGBTQ and democracy activist in Honduras. His death, like those of many other activists, LGBTQ leaders, journalists, unionists and teachers… Read more >>
- Here's the most striking WikiLeaks revelation: the same Obama administration that is currently devoting endless resources to vilifying WikiLeaks for promoting government transparency has none to spare when it comes to prosecuting actual perpetrators of… Read more >>
- Since 9-11, the US government, through Presidents Bush and Obama, has increasingly told the US public that "state secrets" will not be shared with citizens. Candidate Obama pledged to reduce the use of state secrets,… Read more >>
