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Hass: Not Settlements, and Not Watermelons
Znet Article, May, 08 2011
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
The Karameh National Empowerment Fund has made good progress in its campaign to rid PA territories of goods grown or made by Jewish settlements, says its director, but state-building requires more than just boycotts
Cohn: The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse
Book, April, 19 2011
Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have become garden variety words for practically anyone who reads about current events in a newspaper or blog.
Bronski: Sex and Security
Zmag Article, April, 01 2011
Michael Bronski
Bronski's ZSpace page
Bradley Manning, sexual identity, and Wikileaks
Cohn: Bradley Manning Treatment Reveals Continued Government Complicity in Torture
Commentary, March, 26 2011
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is facing court-martial for leaking military reports and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, is being held in solitary confinement in Quantico brig in Virginia.
Cook: Disappeared On A Ukraine Train
Znet Article, March, 23 2011
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
Israel admitted this week that it was behind the abduction of a Gazan engineer who went missing more than a month ago while travelling on a train in the Ukraine.
Fisk: Palestinians Understand Gaddafi Better Than We Do
Znet Article, March, 17 2011
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
I should have guessed something was up in Jerusalem last year when an Israeli journalist asked me about the United Nations Relief and Works Agency...
Ellsberg: This shameful abuse of Bradley Manning
Znet Article, March, 15 2011
Daniel Ellsberg
Ellsberg's ZSpace page
The WikiLeaks suspect's mistreatment amounts to torture.
Vltchek: UN Report On Congo
Commentary, March, 15 2011
Andre Vltchek
Vltchek's ZSpace page
A 545-page report on atrocities that were committed predominantly by Rwanda and Uganda (and to much lesser degree by four other African nations) in DRC/Congo was first leaked to French newspaper Le Monde and later to the reporters of The New York ...
Shiva: Vandana Shiva - Earth Democracy at PCC
Video, March, 02 2011
Vandana Shiva
Shiva's ZSpace page
A talk by Dr. Vandana Shiva at Portland Community College in Portland, Oregon, USA on February 24th, 2011.
Quigley: Blind Human Rights Lawyer Beaten and Isolated in Chinese Crackdown
Commentary, February, 24 2011
Bill Quigley
Quigley's ZSpace page
Chen Guangcheng, a blind, 39 year old, self-taught, human rights lawyer in China who was recently released after years in prison has been put in home detention, isolated and beaten by authorities.
Cohn: Law professor says Egypt was a common destination for torture of detainees sent by U.S.
Znet Article, February, 18 2011
Marjorie Cohn
Cohn's ZSpace page
Law professor says Egypt was a common destination for torture of detainees sent by U.S.
Klein: Goldstone's Legacy for Israel
Znet Article, February, 01 2011
Naomi Klein
Klein's ZSpace page
A sprawling crime scene. That is what Gaza felt like when I visited in the summer of 2009...
Quigley: Honduras Human Rights Abuses Worse One Year After President Lobo Took Office
Znet Article, January, 28 2011
Bill Quigley
Quigley's ZSpace page
Unprecedented violence against journalists is not an indicator of democratic governance and reconciliation.
Hass: IDF Soldier Claims Wrong Information Led To Gaza Family's Deaths
Znet Article, January, 23 2011
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
Though two years have passed, 'Uri' still exhibits clear signs of distress. He talks in a near whisper as he begins to relay the story of his most traumatic experience as a soldier.
Gordon: Israel's Assault on Human Rights
Commentary, January, 13 2011
Neve Gordon
Gordon's ZSpace page
The ongoing delegitimization of those watchdogs of democracy—human rights NGOs, the press and public intellectuals—is leading Israel down a steep and slippery slope.
Lynd: Prisoners at Supermax Ohio Penitentiary Begin Hunger Strike to Protest 17+ Year Solitary Confinement
Znet Article, January, 06 2011
Staughton Lynd
Lynd's ZSpace page
Four prisoners in the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary have launched a hunger strike to protest what they call their harsh mistreatment under solitary confinement.
Lynd: Hunger Strike At Ohio State Penitentiary
Commentary, December, 31 2010
Staughton Lynd
Lynd's ZSpace page
As this is written on Christmas Eve, a small group of death-sentenced prisoners at the Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) have declared their intention to begin a "rolling hunger strike" on Monday, January 3.
Hass: 'Shin Bet tortures prisoners and denies access to lawyers'
Znet Article, December, 29 2010
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
As many as 90 percent of Palestinian prisoners being interrogated by the Shin Bet security service are prevented from consulting with an attorney, even though civilian and military legislation state clearly that such prohibition should be rarely a...
Hass: Israeli Rights Groups Want To Force Shin Bet To Record Interrogations
Znet Article, December, 24 2010
Amira Hass
Hass's ZSpace page
The groups say visual and voice recordings of interrogations would prevent use of unacceptable interrogation methods and false confessions.
Fisk: The Tragedy Of Algeria's 'Disappeared'
Znet Article, December, 21 2010
Robert Fisk
Fisk's ZSpace page
The Algerian government is trumpeting the revolution that put an end to French colonial rule half a century ago. But what followed left its own deep scars, writes Robert Fisk in Algiers.
