The Pressure Mounts on the University of Berkeley
Many of you have probably followed the debate at the University of Berkeley re: the position of Professor John Yoo. Briefly, Yoo...
Raj Purohit
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Bipartisan House Action on CIA Torture Tapes
As the first session of the 110th Congress winds to a close, it is good to see that there are increased signs...
Genocide Accountability Act
Some good news from Congress -- the Genocide Accountability Act has gone to the President for his signature. CGS supported the bill...
Good News and Bad News
First the good news - Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee came out and endorsed the position taken by Senator McCain on the...
We are opposing Mukasey
We have been following the AG nomination process closely and decided yesterday that we needed to oppose Mukasey - here is our...
Bush on Darfur: Do as I say, not as I do
My article on the President's UN speech ran in the Washington Examiner . It includes a 3 step plan for the President:...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Fails to Publish our Letter to the Editor
On September 22nd the PTR ran an article by Bill Steigerwald in opposition to the UN Convention on the Law of the...
Amnesty International Conference at United World College-USA
I have headed over to the United World College-USA where I will be running a couple of workshops on war crimes, genocide...
Human Rights Challenges
It has been an interesting couple of days here at the WFM. I have been part of some wide ranging discussions on...
WFM Meeting
Today was an interesting first day at the WFM 60th anniversary annual meeting. Bill Pace, the head of the WFM’s international secretariat...
Geneva and the Conventions
I have arrived in Switzerland for an important conference put on by the WFM (more on that later). One of the first...
Closing Gitmo
The Washington Post Editorial Board today urged President Bush to close the U.S. prison at Gitmo and seek another way to hold...