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Children Describe 'Despair, Loneliness, and Boredom' at Colorado Juvenile Detention Centers
*Editor's Note: This photo was originally published by Disability Law Colorado in its recent report: Breaking Point: Conditions in the Colorado Division of Youth Services (2021–2025) Tony S. is 12 years old and has been locked up for over six months, even though a Colorado judge in his delinquency case said he should be released. Tony has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and a medical condition that causes cognitive impairments, behavioral issues, and developmental delays.
Death Row Case Exposes Failures to Protect Childhood Trauma Survivors
Capital Punishment This case gets at the very heart of our right to a jury trial. Traditionally and historically, the right to a jury trial has promised that a person could not be punished unless every single person in a group of one’s peers agreed, by jury vote, that that was the just outcome. However, Florida feels differently.
Legacy of the “Dark Side”
The first foreign Muslim men imprisoned by the US military at the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in the so-called “global war on terror.” Since January 2002, the US has held nearly 800 men and boys at Guantánamo. Of the 39 who currently remain, 27 have never been charged.
Opinion | It’s time for the U.S. to stop selling weapons to human rights abusers
Elisa Epstein is the Washington advocacy officer at Human Rights Watch. The Biden administration notified Congress in June of a proposed sale of more than $2.5 billion in arms to the Philippines, including fighter jets and two kinds of precision missiles.
Credibility on International Justice Requires Equal Application of the Law
Elisa Epstein, Washington advocacy officer and Liz Evenson, associate international justice director, at Human Rights Watch, comment on the impunity of the US for war crimes and the role of the ICC as a court of last resort... On June 7, at a public hearing, Representative Ilhan Omar asked Secretary of State Tony Blinken where the victims of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity could go to seek justice if domestic prosecutors won’t pursue cases in court.
Guantanamo’s Ugly Taint on U.S. Diplomacy
As I sat behind the safety glass of a courtroom at Guantanamo Bay in mid-January, for the pre-trial hearings of the five men charged as conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, my mind kept wandering to a different prison, halfway around the world.
US Citizen Dies in Egyptian Prison
Mustafa Kassem. © 2020 Private The death this week of Mustafa Kassem, an Egyptian-American imprisoned in Egypt after an unfair trial, underscores the Trump administration’s failed approach on human rights in Egypt. Police arrested Kassem in August 2013, during protests against the military takeover in Cairo. He was held for more than five years, until his conviction and sentencing in September 2018 in an unfair trial alongside more than 700 others.
وفاة مواطن أمريكي في سجن مصري
مصطفى قاسم. © 2020 خاص وفاة مصطفى قاسم، المصري الأمريكي المسجون في مصر إثر محاكمة جائرة، هذا الأسبوع تُبيّن المقاربة الفاشلة لإدارة ترامب حيال حقوق الإنسان في مصر. اعتقلت الشرطة قاسم في أغسطس/آب 2013 خلال احتجاجات مناهضة لاستيلاء الجيش على السلطة في القاهرة. احتُجز لأكثر من خمس سنوات حتى إدانته والحكم عليه في سبتمبر/أيلول في محاكمة جائرة مع أكثر من 700 آخرين. حُرِم قاسم مرارا من الرعاية الطبية اللازمة رغم إصابته بالسكري ومشكلة بالقلب، وفقا لعائلته. لم يُتوفَ قاسم بسبب التجاهل الأمريكي.
Commentary: Trump’s human rights pick Marshall Billingslea is torture apologist
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering President Donald Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top diplomat on human rights. The problem is that the nominee, Marshall Billingslea, advocated torture, so-called “enhanced interrogation,” and other illegal practices as a senior official in the George W. Bush administration — positions he now seeks to obfuscate.
Commentary: Trump's human rights pick Marshall Billingslea is torture apologist
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering President Donald Trump's pick to be the nation's top diplomat on human rights. The problem is that the nominee, Marshall Billingslea, advocated torture, so-called "enhanced interrogation," and other illegal practices as a senior official in the George W. Bush administration - positions he now seeks to obfuscate.
Commentary: Trump's human rights pick Marshall Billingslea is torture apologist
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering President Donald Trump's pick to be the nation's top diplomat on human rights. The problem is that the nominee, Marshall Billingslea, advocated torture, so-called "enhanced interrogation," and other illegal practices as a senior official in the George W. Bush administration - positions he now seeks to obfuscate.
Commentary: Trump's human rights pick Marshall Billingslea is torture apologist
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering President Donald Trump's pick to be the nation's top diplomat on human rights. The problem is that the nominee, Marshall Billingslea, advocated torture, so-called "enhanced interrogation," and other illegal practices as a senior official in the George W. Bush administration - positions he now seeks to obfuscate.
Trump’s Human Rights Pick is Torture Apologist
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering President Donald Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top diplomat on human rights. The problem is that the nominee, Marshall Billingslea, advocated torture, so-called “enhanced interrogation,” and other illegal practices as a senior official in the George W. Bush administration, positions he now seeks to obfuscate.
Protests in Egypt Show Trump’s Wrong about al-Sisi
President Donald Trump meets with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 23, 2019.
احتجاجات مصر تظهر أن ترامب مخطئ بشأن السيسي
الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب يلتقي الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي خلال دورة "الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة" في نيويورك، 23 سبتمبر/أيلول 2019. © 2019 أسوشيتد برس/إيفان فوتشي في اجتماعات "الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة" هذا الأسبوع، أثنى الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب على الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي باعتباره "القائد العظيم" الذي أخرج مصر من "الفوضى". وقبل بضعة أسابيع، قيل إن ترامب أشار إلى السيسي على أنه "ديكتاتوري المفضل".
Trump ‘Disloyalty’ Claim Raises Anti-Semitic Trope
President Donald Trump addresses the audience at the 75th annual AMVETS National Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, August 21, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Timothy D.
A Terrible Week for Saudi’s MBS Shows Tide is Turning
US President Donald Trump shows a chart highlighting arms sales to Saudi Arabia during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, March 20, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File In a powerful rebuke to the Trump administration and a strong signal to Gulf states, the US Senate voted yesterday, 53 to 45, to block arms sales worth billions of dollars to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), among other countries.
ندعو ممثلي ولاية نيوجرسي إلى فعل ما لن يفعله ترامب عند زيارة السيسي
الرئيسان الأمريكي دونالد ترامب والمصري عبد الفتاح السيسي يسيران في الرواق الخارجي للبيت الأبيض في واشنطن، الولايات المتحدة، 3 أبريل/نيسان 2017. © 2017 رويترز في 9 نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني 2016، أي اليوم التالي للانتخابات الأمريكية، ورد أن الرئيس المنتخب دونالد ترامب تلقى تهانيه الأولى من رئيس دولة. كان معه على الهاتف الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي – المشير في الجيش الذي تولى السيطرة الفعلية على مصر في 2013 بانقلاب، وتولى الرئاسة رسميا في 2014.
US Again Cuts Women from State Department’s Human Rights Reports
Once again, the Trump administration has cut most mentions of key human rights abuses that disproportionately impact women and girls around the world from the US State Department’s annual human rights reports. In the reports released today, March 13th, 2019, the State Department decided to remove analysis of women’s reproductive health and rights, including country-level analysis of maternal mortality and unmet contraceptive needs.
على الكونغرس الأمريكي ألا ينخدع بالتحايل المصري
على صانعي السياسة الأمريكيين ألا ينخدعوا بدعوة الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي الأخيرة لمراجعة قانون المنظمات غير الحكومية في مصر لعام 2017، وهو قانون جائر يجرّم فعليا المنظمات غير الحكومية ويمهد الطريق إلى قمع "غير مسبوق" في البلاد. على أعضاء الكونغرس بدل ذلك التركيز على حملة القمع المستمرة ضد المجتمع المدني في ظل حكم السيسي، والتي تشمل الحظر شبه المطلق على التجمع السلمي، والاعتقالات التعسفية، والتعذيب المزعوم، والاختفاء القسري للمعارضين والناشطين السلميين.
US Congress Should Not Be Fooled By Egypt’s Platitudes
US policymakers shouldn’t be fooled by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s recent call to review Egypt’s draconian 2017 NGO law, which effectively criminalized non-governmental groups and set the path for “unprecedented” repression in the country.
Trump Needs More Than ‘Quiet Diplomacy’ in Egypt
The arrest in Egypt of American-Egyptian dual citizen Amir Nagy, who founded an academy for children’s development in Nasr City, should be a wake-up call to the Trump administration on the questionable effectiveness of its quiet, behind-the-scenes advocacy on human rights in Egypt.
One Year In, Senior Trump Officials Highly Selective on Human Rights
Senior US officials have made comments on the Middle East recently that reinforce concerns that the Trump administration will largely ignore human rights issues long considered important to US foreign policy. In his January 17 speech at Stanford University, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid out the Trump administration’s Syria strategy. Yet he never mentioned US refugee or aid policy – surely integral aspects of any US strategy in Syria.
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