An outbreak of violence in southern Mauritania has drawn attention to fears among the country's black population that a government census could lead to loss of citizenship rights.
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Posted in: Africa, Rights & Justice
Topics: Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, mauritania, Rights & Justice, Sebastian Kohn, Senegal, statelessness, UNHCR
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I taught interrogation and the law of war for 18 years to U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine interrogators. The truth—uncontroversial among those who actually interrogate suspects—is that torture is likely to produce faulty information because its victims will say anything to make the pain stop.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: 9/11 at 10, David R. Irvine, National Security & Human Rights, torture
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On September 11, 2011, Rev. Richard Killmer, Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Rev. Richard Cizik, and Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster discussed the formation of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and their collective work to voice the moral objections of America’s diverse religious communities to the torture of terrorism suspects held in U.S. custody.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, United States
Topics: 9/11 at 10, Ingrid Mattson, Islamic Society of North America, Nancy Chang, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, National Security & Human Rights, New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, Rabbis for Human Rights – North America, Rachel Kahn-Troster, Richard Cizik, Richard Killmer, torture
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At Bloggingheads.tv, we’ve had more than a dozen experts come on the site and analyze America’s post-9/11 approach to fighting terrorism.
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