Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Rothis an American attorney who has been the executive director of Human Rights Watch since 1993...
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On pain of imprisonment, Libyans are not allowed to criticize the government, its political system, or its leader.
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These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.
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Pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice. First by the perpetrators who raped them, and then by officials who ignore them, insult them and deny them a legal abortion.
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Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks
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There had been tremendous progress toward a consensus in creating a human rights council. That consensus has now been damaged because Bolton picked up the pages of the draft document and threw them into the air.
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The result is that many pregnant rape victims are essentially assaulted twice, first by the rapist and second by public officials.
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You plunge yourself further and further into debt, rental prices drop, you can't make your mortgage payments and you're forced to sell for less than you owe.
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This is an important symbolic visit. The real test is to see if the government is ready to implement the recommendations and show it's serious about eradicating torture.
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The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to advance human rights protection ? not blocking a consensus proposal that makes so much progress for human rights. The current resolution can be made to work if the United States joins with other democracies to establish the new council and make it function effectively.
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The Bush administration must appoint a special prosecutor to examine these abuses, and Congress should set up an independent, bipartisan panel to investigate.
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Despite the fact that rape victims have a formal right to legal abortion, that right was blocked by a maze of administrative hurdles and negligence and obstruction by public officials.
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In a one-party system intolerant of dissent, petitioning is one of the only ways that ordinary Chinese have to air their grievances.
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Iran will be the litmus test for whether China will become a responsible stakeholder in the world.
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It's an open question whether Bolton's throwing all the cards up in the air is meant to improve the council or to prove that the UN can't reform itself and therefore should be abandoned.