New revelations about the CIA "black site" on Polish soil underscore the need for Europe's human rights court to act.
Archive for May, 2011
-
4 comments
-
As new competitors for the public's attention emerge online, what will happen to investigative journalism?
-
Photographer Valeriy Kaliyev documents one of the darker sides of the post-Soviet economic boom in Kazakhstan: exploitation of migrant laborers.
Posted in: Asia, Media & Arts, Rights & Justice
Topics: documentary photography, Kate Phillips, Kazakhstan, labor migration, Valeriy Kaliyev, video
-
Continued official secrecy over the existence of a CIA "black site" on Polish territory in 2002-03 continues to cast a shadow over the important strategic relationship between Washington and Warsaw.
-
Sherrilyn Ifill, professor of law at the University of Maryland and board chair of U.S. Programs at the Open Society Foundations, breaks down the implications of the Supreme Court ruling forcing California to reduce the extreme overcrowding of its prisons.
-
It is time for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to move forward in his commitment to justice and accountability over the 2009 atrocities in Sri Lanka.
Posted in: Asia, Governance & Accountability, Rights & Justice
Topics: Alison Cole, Ban Ki-moon, China, International Criminal Court, international justice, LTTE, Sri Lanka, Tamil, UN, UN Security Council
-
While corruption and cronyism are rampant throughout the Czech Republic, the concept of whistleblowing has been difficult to promote.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability
Topics: corruption, Czech Republic, Open Society Fund–Prague, Robert Basch, video, whistleblowing
-
Ahead of a visit from Barack Obama, Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski has signed an amendment to his country's drug law.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, EU, global drug policy, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Poland, war on drugs
-
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on California prisons provides policymakers with the opportunity to correct misguided sentencing policies and, in the process, to produce more effective public safety outcomes.
-
We believe that one person with one idea, at one moment in time and under the right circumstances, can make a difference.