Torture

January 2012

The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

Torture: Immoral, illegal, counterproductive, and un-American

May 2011

Peter Weiss

Resorting to lawlessness in 'the war against terror' only serves to undermine the very values that made American society strong in the first place.

This shameful abuse of Bradley Manning

March 2011

Daniel Elsberg

The WikiLeaks suspect's mistreatment amounts to torture. Either President Obama knows this or he should make it his business.

The Torturer in the Mirror

September 2010

Tom Reifer

When is torture ever an effective tool of government? Despite Obama promises to end torture (and close Guantanamo), this ineffective, inhumane and unacceptable practice still continues with complicity from the highest levels of the US government.

Secrecy, Torture & Human Rights: US War Crimes, European Complicity, and International Law

May 2010

Tom Reifer

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's role in defending torture and rendition under the Obama administration raises serious concerns about the ongoing failure of the US government to end its own practice of extreme human rights abuses throughout the world.

Secrecy, the Republic and the Supreme Court

May 2010

Tom Reifer

Elena Kagan's use of the state secrets privilege to dismiss the case of a German citizen, who was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA, should be a cause for major concern over her recent nomination by President Obama to the US Supreme Court.

The Pinochet Cases and the Invasion of Iraq

September 2004

Saul Landau

September has become Generalissimo Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's cruelest month.