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  • Indefinite Detention Is Already Bad, Don't Add Discrimination
    Nov 29, 2012

    Late last year, Congress passed and the president signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2012. The NDAA codified, for the first time since a never-used McCarthy era law, indefinite detention without charge or trial.

  • A Failed Experiment
    Nov 19, 2012
    Following the 9/11 attacks, the United States imprisoned hundreds without trial at Guantánamo and created a new military-commission system there to try terrorism suspects. The system lacked fundamental protections required for fair trials.
  • Libya: New Government Should End Illegal Detention
    Nov 16, 2012
    Libya’s new government, sworn in on November 14, 2012, should put the illegal detention of more than 8,000 people atop its agenda.
  • Why take the risk at Guantanamo?
    Oct 24, 2012
    The ambiguous authority in the Guantanamo courtroom is not surprising given the scant trial record of the post 9/11 military commissions, which have been refashioned in various forms since 2004.
  • Getting Away with Murder
    Oct 18, 2012
    On his second full day in office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order banning the use of torture and closing the CIA “black sites” that were the locus of so much abuse. Standing behind him as he signed the order were retired admirals and generals, highly decorated officers who had dedicated their lives to keeping the United States safe.
  • Canada: Rehabilitate and Reintegrate Ex-Child Soldier
    Sep 29, 2012
    The government of Canada should rehabilitate and reintegrate into society former child soldier Omar Khadr, and seek to remedy abuses he suffered during a decade in United States custody.
  • Israel/Palestinian Authority: Charge or Free Palestinian Detainees
    Sep 18, 2012

    Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) should immediately charge or release men they are detaining arbitrarily and investigate alleged abuses against them in custody.

  • Guantanamo still a blight on US record
    Sep 17, 2012
    The death of Adnan Latif should serve as a wake-up call for the United States to change its tarnished response to 9/11 by closing Guantanamo, even as it grapples with the horrifying attacks on its missions in Libya, Egypt and Yemen.
  • US: Death at Guantanamo Underscores Need to Close Facility
    Sep 11, 2012
    The death of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay on September 8, 2012, underscores the need for the United States government to either charge detainees in civilian court or release them.
  • UN Human Rights Council: Statement on the Situation of the Rohingya in Burma, and on the Situation Throughout Mali
    Sep 9, 2012
    Human Rights Watch shares the High Commissioner's concerns about serious ongoing abuses in Arakan and Kachin State in Burma. The Rohingya situation, as well as serious abuses arising out of the ethnic armed conflict in Kachin State, reinforce the need for the Government to invite the High Commissioner's office to set up an office in the country. Human Rights Watch is also concerned about the continuing deterioration of the human rights situation throughout Mali and urges the Human Rights Council to encourage OHCHR to set up a presence in the country and to continue to report on the situation in the country as a whole.
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