Cristián Correa : "The whole debate about if waterboarding is torture or not seems artificial to me, because it is very clear that drowning detainees during interrogation is a way of intentionally inflicting severe...
Professional Commentary
Malcolm Nance : "That the National Director of Intelligence, Mike McConnell would recently come out and opine that waterboarding "hether it's torture by anybody else's definition … for me it would be torture" tells...
Max Croes : "On December 31, 2007, President Bush, with unanimous support from Congress, signed the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act into law. The law is a landmark establishment of standards for policies of targeted...
Santosh Giri : "The abolition of Nepal's nearly 240-year-old monarchy and declaration of Nepal as a "federal, democratic, republican state" was made by an overwhelming majority in the interim parliament late last month. 270...
Chip Pitts : "The recent transfer home from Guantanamo of ten more Saudi prisoners (and reports from Qatar News Agency that more of the final 13 Saudis may soon follow) suggests...
Basil Fernando : "This note confines itself to the legal implications of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, though in fact it will also be felt enormously politically and socially. It is important to note that...
John Kamm "The detention of Hu Jia on December 27, 2007 for "incitement to subversion" is the most important move against the small but increasingly defiant community of human rights defenders and dissidents in...
Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "At 6:16 pm this evening, Pakistan lost Benazir Bhutto (BB). Plenty of individuals in this country had severe differences of opinion with her policies and politics, yet one could never imagine...
Diane Orentlicher : "The history of U.S. efforts to punish genocide is full of paradoxes. The United States led postwar efforts to prosecute Nazi crimes in Nuremberg and played...
Maiko Taguscari : "On Dec. 7, the Ministry of Justice disclosed the names of the three death row inmates who were hanged that day, as well as the summary...
