Human Rights

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2009

Beyond Rescue

Noy Thrupkaew : Feminism & Women

The campaign against forced prostitution works when it addresses victims' needs.
Kristof's Challenge

Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women

If women's equality is the cause of our time, we'll get further by acknowledging it's a challenge no country has fully met than by framing it as a Western crusade.
The Crusade Against Sex Trafficking

Noy Thrupkaew : Protestantism & Protestants

Do brothel raids help trafficking victims escape abuse, or skirt the reality that makes recovery so difficult for the "rescued?"
Israel's Crimes, America's Silence

John Dugard : Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

There is now sufficient evidence to charge Israel with war crimes for its actions in Gaza. Why is Obama silent?
Fujimori: Guilty as Charged

Peter Kornbluh : Cuba

Peru's disgraced former president becomes the first democratically elected head of state to be extradited, tried and convicted of human rights crimes.
Bush's War Totals

John Tirman : Iraq War

The human cost of Bush's war: 1 million dead. 4.5 million displaced. 1 million to 2 million widows. 5 million orphans.
Scientists Come Out for Human Rights

Sonia Shah : Science

After eight years of being sidelined by the Bush administration, many in notoriously apolitical professions are ready to stand up and be counted on the social and ethical implications of their work.
Pinter: Bare-Knuckled Citizen Playwright

Margaret Spillane : Theater

In the end, Harold Pinter devoted himself to defining "the real truth of our lives and our societies." Now that he's gone, his twenty-nine plays will continue that rude, honorable and turbulent work.

2008

The Battle for Human Rights

Barbara Crossette : United Nations

Which idea of human rights will prevail: Western notions of freedom from fear or poorer nations' insistence on freedom from want?
Don't Repackage Gitmo!

Michael Ratner & Jules Lobel : Guantanamo Bay

Shutting down Guantánamo is long overdue. We shouldn't recreate it by another name.
No Gitmo, No Torture

CBS : Geneva Convention

President-elect Obama speaks with 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft about the need to restore America's moral standing in the world.
UN: Hope that America Rejoins the World

Barbara Crossette : United Nations

Quiet relief, an undercurrent of caution and hope for a new approach to human rights, the environment and the problems of the poor.
Bearing Witness: The Afghan Tragedy

Malalai Joya : Afghanistan

Seven years after the US invasion, Afghanistan is still chained to the fundamentalist warlords and the Taliban. Women and children suffer the most.
Olympic Trials

Dave Zirin : Sports

If China's leaders believe they've released enough steam for a smooth Olympics, they could be in for a surprise.
Women's Advocate Is UN's New Human Rights Chief

Barbara Crossette : United Nations

Despite the Bush Administration's scramble to scuttle her nomination because she is--gasp!--a feminist, a South African judge is named high commissioner for human rights.
Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes Now

Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Torture

Some Democrats are pushing to let bygones be bygones and concentrate instead on solving problems of the future. Here's why we can't let the Bush Administration off the hook.
The Bureaucracy of Rape

Barbara Crossette : United Nations

Pressured by the Bush Administration, the United Nations issues a ringing declaration and solicits pledges that decry rape as a weapon of war. How about actually doing something?

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