December 2, 2008
New York, December 2, 2008 – Recent claims by the Sudanese government that the situation in Darfur is improving are not borne out by reality,…
November 17, 2008
Washington, DC – Since the killings of 17 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater security contractors in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square last year, lack of accountability of contractors has been a…
October 1, 2008
WASHINGTON—With only a few weeks of the congressional session left before the November elections, Senator Lindsey Graham (R.-S.C.) yesterday introduced a bill (S. 3401) to…
September 24, 2008
NEW YORK–Incidents of violent hate crime targeting a number of minority groups are increasing or occurring at historically high levels in many of the Organization…
September 16, 2008
Washington, DC – In a clear bipartisan statement denouncing the flow of weapons to Sudan, Senators Bill Nelson and James Inhofe, along with sixteen other…
September 15, 2008
WASHINGTON—Thirty-eight retired generals and admirals today appealed to the United States Senate to enact legislation ending the practice of holding “ghost detainees” by requiring that…
September 12, 2008
A new poll shows that a majority of Southern evangelicals support torture . . .but that support decreases when they are asked about the Golden Rule and…
September 8, 2008
New York, NY – The New York City Bar International Human Rights Committee and Human Rights First are co-sponsoring a panel discussion with leading federal…