Global JusticeThe US and Torture: What Now?
The Senate Intelligence Committee recently released a much-anticipated executive summary of a more than 6,000-page report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s tactics...
Christopher Davis
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Global Justice
Global JusticeHuman Rights, the US, and International Law
The ideal of international human rights spans over 40 years, beginning with the Unverisal Declaration of Human Rights. Since then, there have...
Human RightsThe Debate to Protect our Children
One of the most widely ratified human rights treaties is that which protects the world’s youngest citizens: the Convention on the Rights...
Will the Nigerian Government Actually #BringBackOurGirls?
The Nigerian government has stated that it has finally secured the release of the more than 200 hundred girls abducted from a...
Nigerian Atrocities Go Largely Unnoticed
12.5 million internally displaced civilians, 3 million refugees, 700,000 stateless people. These alarming statistics are not related to ISIL or Syria or...
Global JusticeThe UN and Humans of New York Team Up
If you have not yet heard of Brandon Stanton and his photo blog, Humans of New York, you need to check it...
NewsClaims of War Crimes as Israel-Gaza Conflict Rages On
Operation Protective Edge, the name given to the Israeli Defense Force’s ground assault against Hamas' military arm, is aimed at halting rocket...
Peace & DisarmamentThe Debate on UN Funding
$1.5 billion. That was the amount of the United States' debt to the United Nations at the beginning of the 2009 fiscal...
Global Justice35 Years and Counting
Considered The Bill of Rights for women, the Women’s Rights Treaty (CEDAW) is the most comprehensive international agreement on the basic human...
Peace & DisarmamentGlobal 911: It’s Time for a UN Emergency Peace Force
Genocide, mass atrocities, violent oppression; these acts, these words, invoke fear, disgust, anger and beg the question why? Human history is littered...
Global JusticeRemembering Rwanda
One hundred days and nearly 1 million men, women, and children alike killed; killed only because of their ethnic backgrounds. Neighbors, friends,...
Global JusticeA Mass Death Sentence
In what has been deemed as contrary to international law; 529 Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters have been sentenced to death. The...