A major rights watchdog warned the United States, Arab League, and European Union against transferring detainees to prisons in Egypt and cautioned them not to seek or accept Egyptian government assurances that prisoners will not be tortured or abused. Human Rights...
Fifty current and former employees of U.S. national security agencies are demanding that Congress end government retaliation against those who expose national security blunders. Leaders of the new group, known as the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC),...
Cherif Bassiouni, the top U.N. human rights investigator in Afghanistan until his job was eliminated at Washington's behest, has caused a stir by accusing the United States of obstructing, then ousting him in a bid to cover up abuses by its personnel. Even so, he...
NEW YORK - A Muslim scholar who was issued and then denied a visa to teach in the United States because of alleged ties to terrorists has called for an immediate moratorium on corporal and capital punishment and dialogue aimed at creating less repressive Muslim...
A leading human rights group demands that the U.S. government launch a sweeping inquiry into the torture of Iraqi and other prisoners by U.S. troops, and that it name a special prosecutor to probe high-ranking officials' possible role in alleged abuses. Human Rights...
The Halliburton corporation, already the Iraq war's poster child for "waste, fraud, and abuse," has been hit with a new double whammy. A report from the U.S. State Department accuses the company of "poor performance" in its $1.2 billion contract to...
NEW YORK - Three influential civil rights groups charged Wednesday that border control tactics used by the Department of Homeland Security discriminate against U.S. citizens solely on the basis of their religion and ethnicity, in violation of the U.S. Constitution. In...
The Republican majority on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee suffered a stunning defeat today in its efforts to confirm the nomination of Undersecretary of State John Bolton as the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. In a surprise move during an unusually...
The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military's most senior leaders, want Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to approve new guidelines that will formalize the George W. Bush administration's policy of imprisoning so-called enemy combatants without the protections of the...
The man who famously said the United Nations headquarters could lose 10 stories and "it wouldn't make a bit of difference" appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today as U.S. President George W. Bush's nominee to be Washington's next...
