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Posted On: Jul 09, 2010
World Policy Journal's 2010 Summer issue takes an in-depth look at the global health crisis. Writers in India, Brazil and France take us inside the medical systems that spend, respectively, $30, $300 and $3,000 on health care per person per year. While the differences are critical, the similarities are all too often frightening. From London, an investigation into the global spread of pharmaceutical counterfeiting. In Ghana, a story that explores the legacy of neglect in public sanitati...
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Posted On: Jul 08, 2010
PENNOYER FELLOW, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY PROGRAM For over 30 years, Human Rights First (HRF) has worked to build respect for human rights and the rule of law, to help ensure the dignity to which each person is entitled. The Crimes Against Humanity Program, which researches and analyzes mass atrocity situations and advocates for effective responses thereto by the U.S. government and others, is expanding and seeks a Pennoyer Fellow. The Pennoyer Fellow will be an integral participant in program...
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Posted On: Jun 21, 2010
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS PROGRAM DIRECTOR For more than 30 years, HRF has worked in the United States and abroad to create a more secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law. Human Rights First protects people at risk: refugees who flee persecution, victims of crimes against humanity or other mass human rights violations, victims of discrimination, human rights advocates who are targeted for defending the rights of others, and those whose r...
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Posted On: Jun 16, 2010
Fidel Castro's socialist revolution promised to satisfy the basic needs of the Cuban people, but the price demanded was the surrender of freedoms. Instead of a brighter future, misery in Cuba is widespread and the individual is vilified. In a new paper, Yoani Sánchez looks back at Cuba's unique path, and finds hope. "Now that the state is out of money and there are no more rights to exchange for benefits," says Sánchez, "the demand for freedom is on the rise."
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Posted On: Jun 15, 2010
For more than 30 years, HRF has worked in the United States and abroad to create a more secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law. Human Rights First protects people at risk: refugees who flee persecution, victims of crimes against humanity or other mass human rights violations, victims of discrimination, human rights advocates who are targeted for defending the rights of others, and those whose rights are eroded in the name of national secu...
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Posted On: Jun 01, 2010
New York Office WEB PUBLISHER Human Rights First believes that building respect for human rights and the rule of law will help ensure the dignity to which every individual is entitled and will stem tyranny, extremism, intolerance, and violence. Human Rights First protects people at risk: refugees who flee persecution, victims of crimes against humanity or other mass human rights violations, victims of discrimination, those whose rights are eroded in the name of national security...
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Posted On: May 24, 2010
First, They Came for the Sex Offendersby David RittgersFirst, they came for the sex offenders. I am not a sex offender, but I opposed the civil commitment of sex offenders by the federal government because it is not an activity within the enumerated powers of Congress. The Supreme Court decided otherwise in Comstock, with the exception of Justices Thomas and Scalia.Next, they will come for suspected terrorists. As Dahlia Lithwick (who I rarely agree with – here is her commentary on the Hell...
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Posted On: May 20, 2010
by David RittgersThe attempted Times Square bombing prompted Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Scott Brown (R-MA) to propose that anyone suspected of providing material support, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 2339A, to State Department-listed terrorist groups be stripped of their citizenship. As Julian Sanchez points out, existing law provides for expatriation for a number of reasons, but in two distinct categories. The first is for actions that demonstrate intent to relinquish citizenship: sw...
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Posted On: May 20, 2010
by Ted Galen Carpenter05.19.2010 Akbar Ganji is someone U.S. officials should heed when it comes to policy toward his native Iran. Ganji, a writer and journalist who became the fifth biennial recipient of the Milton Friedman Award for Advancing Liberty on May 13, hasn’t just talked the talk when it comes to working to establish a democratic Iran, he has walked the walk far beyond what most people could endure. During the late 1990s, he presented evidence that the mullahs were behind the ass...
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Posted On: May 19, 2010
Posted by Ilya ShapiroOn Tuesday I discussed the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down laws that allow juveniles to be sentenced to life without parole (LWOP) for non-homicide crimes. What concerns me here isn’t so much the morality or policy wisdom in applying such sentences — though Chief Justice Roberts makes some good policy points in his concurrence — or even the interpretation of what constitutes a “cruel and unusual punishment” — which I think Justice Kennedy mishan...
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Posted On: Apr 23, 2010
Is Aid a Matter of Justice?by Marian L. TupyThis article appeared in The Wall Street Journal Europe on April 22, 2010. ONE, a non-governmental organization co-founded by singers Bono and Bob Geldof, recently released a video that contrasts prosperous life in the developed world with African misery. The message is that reducing African poverty, which ONE aims to accomplish primarily through financial transfers from the West, is "not about charity. It's about justice." Appealing to ...
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Posted On: Mar 31, 2010
NAT HENTOFF | Posted: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:00 am Last Dec. 18, a New York Times editorial grimly prophesied that President Obama, "like George W. Bush, will decree that the entire planet is a battlefield and anyone arrested anywhere on terrorism charges may be tried in military tribunals." Obama hasn't quite gone that far, but he has seriously proposed permanent detention for terrorism suspects who can't be tried because alleged evidence against them has been obtained by torture. Ho...
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) is seeking to appoint an Edward Rawson Government Relations Fellow to work out of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Citizens for Global Solutions embraces a vision of a world in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation alone can solve. To this end, Citizens for Global Solutions educates Americans about our global interdependence, communicates global concerns to...
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Posted On: Dec 23, 2009
by Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Afghanistan is the sort of country which humanitarian-minded people understandably want to "fix." It has become a target of aggressive pro-war activists ranging from neoconservatives who believe in remaking other societies at gunpoint to feminists who believe in waging war to improve the status of women.The latter group belies the common assumption that the Left opposes war. While the Right traditionally resisted imperialistic social engi...
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Posted On: Nov 05, 2009
The National Security Network (NSN), the political voice of the progressive national security community, is filling two positions for its policy team. Our policy unit comprises 3-4 individuals who report to the Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer and who work as a team to advance progressive national security policies with Administration policy makers, Members of Congress and their aides, political campaigns, the think tank and advocacy communities, and the media. Team members will ...
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Posted On: Oct 15, 2009
The two-decade-old conflict in Somalia has entered a new phase, which presents both a challenge and an opportunity for the United States. To best encourage peace in the devastated country, Washington needs a new strategy that takes into account hard-learned lessons from multiple failed U.S. interventions.In a new study, author David Axe argues that Washington should err on the side of nonintervention, and recommends:The Obama administration should work to build a regional framework for reconc...
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Posted On: Oct 01, 2009
A letter to Mr. Stern from Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, President of the Connect U.S. Fund and former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, which calls on the Obama Administration to break the deadlock and lead in international negotiations, in order to avoid failure in Copenhagen. The letter highlights this objective as a "financially responsible, moral, and national security imperative for the United States." The details of the letter are informed by key members of...
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Posted On: Sep 30, 2009
The International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP) is a global network established by civil society organizations to promote and implement the RtoP norm. The ICRtoP Secretariat is hosted by WFM - Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP). For more information on the Coalition and WFM-IGP, please go our websites: www.responsibilitytoprotect.org and www.wfm-igp.org. Location: New ...
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Posted On: Sep 28, 2009
This op-ed originally appeared on Huffington Post on September 28, 2009.By Colin Thomas-JensenHow do you defeat a dangerous insurgent group that has embedded itself within a civilian population? This vexing question is at the center of the ongoing debate over the counterinsurgency approach in Afghanistan--a conversation that plays itself out at the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department, on Capital Hill, and through a seemingly endless herd of pundits on cable news shows, op-ed p...
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Posted On: Sep 18, 2009
In the fall issue of World Policy Journal, from inside the Iranian power elite, Kayhan Barzegar, a senior research fellow at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran, offers the unique perspective of the determination of Iran's leadership to develop a "nuclear capability." In a Q&A with the editors, Hans Blix, the veteran International Atomic Energy Agency monitor and strategic thinker, answers some hard questions about whether a move toward a world without nuclear weapons...