The proposed bill and the sanctions should signal a positive shift across the international community’s efforts to rally public condemnation in lending credibility to victims' claims in the face of the Assad regime’s atrocities. Keep Reading
Since 2003, ICE has arrested more than 450 individuals for human rights-related violations of the law under various criminal and immigration statutes. Keep Reading
Samayoa Cabrera, a former civil patrol leader, has been charged in Guatemala for his alleged role in more than 150 human rights abuses, including torture, rape and extrajudicial killing, in El Quichè. Keep Reading
Under U.S. law, it is illegal to import goods into the U.S that are made wholly or in part by forced labor, which includes convict labor, indentured labor. Keep Reading
Human rights advocate and former Human Rights First CEO Elisa Massimino is joining Georgetown Law as the 2019-2020 Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in Human Rights while Navy Judge Advocate Capt. Todd Huntley joins the Law Center as the National Security Law Program Director and Lecturer in Law. Keep Reading
The first time Majid and Ahlam saved a gay person’s life, they didn't even know what LGBT stood for. Word had reached them that three men were being held. Keep Reading
"Sitting in the middle level of a three-tiered bunk bed in a small room, he cannot even straighten his back," reports wife of Princeton doctoral student Xiyue Wang. Keep Reading
The Islamic Republic has directly been inflicting its own brand of terror through its ongoing, brutal practice of hostage-taking. Keep Reading
Former sex slaves have found telling of captivity so retraumatizing that they decided it was better to stay silent. Keep Reading
Security versus civil liberties. How to safeguard the population from the actions of terrorists, while at the same time preserving fundamental rights such as freedom of speech, movement and association? Keep Reading
