Human Rights

TNI and the Pinochet precedent

On 21 September 1976, Transnational Institute discovered the brutal cost of fighting for economic and social justice, when Chilean secret service agents set off a car bomb in Washington DC killing TNI's director, Orlando Letelier along with Ronni Moffitt, a fundraiser for the Institute for...

Torture: America's policy, Europe's shame

Mariano Aguirre

Jan Egeland and Mariano Aguirre

The degrading treatment meted out to prisoners of the United States-led "war on terror" over seven years has yet to be subject to proper legal scrutiny and accountability. But the responsibility is Europe's too, say Jan Egeland & Mariano Aguirre.

Guantanamo plans don’t match rhetoric

Phyllis Bennis

Interviewed by Louise Dunne

US President Barack Obama is failing to match his words to his actions and his promise to end the Guantanamo "mess" must not lead to detention without trial on American soil.

Shielding the President

Nick Buxton

Why are top Democrats protecting Bolivia's former president from facing trial for the massacres he ordered?

World Water Forum in Istanbul

TNI

The corporate-controlled World Water Forum in Istanbul has been marked by repression of protestors, but also strong resistance to pro-privatisation policies from both civil society and some Southern governments.

Where have all our Human Rights Gone? EU Migration Policy 2008: Response and Resistance

Brid Brennan

The Single European Act ratified in 1987, introduces the discussion on migrants in the same paragraph as drug traffickers and terrorists. Ever since, European migration policy has pursued an approach of criminalizing migrants.

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Phyllis Bennis

If you have ever wondered “Why is there so much violence in the Middle East?”, “Who are the Palestinians?”, “What are the occupied territories?” or “What does Israel want?”, then this is the book for you.