By Idiot/Savant on May 26, 2010
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak has just completed a fact-finding mission to Papua New Guinea, uncovering widespread and systematic torture by law-enforcement agencies, including beatings, maimings, hamstringing, and rape. Criminal suspects were routinely beaten on arrest, escapees [...]
Posted in Developing world, Foreign policy, Government, International, Politics | Tagged aid, human rights, Papua New Guinea, torture |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 3, 2010
Open Democracy has asked a range of its contributors to answer the following questions: A volcanic decade in global politics ends amid deep unease about the world’s ability to rise to key 21st-century challenges. openDemocracy writers draw breath and look [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, International, Markets, Politics, Security, Sociology, Terrorism, The Web, War | Tagged agriculture, Authoritarianism, barack obama, China, civil liberties, Climate change, conflict resolution, Copenhagen, decade, democratisation, Developing world, development, ecology, end of history, food security, GFC, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, human rights, humanitarianism, inequality, international law, Madagascar, Mark Lynas, millennium goals, neo-liberalism, Open Democracy, peacekeeping, retrospective, statism, Terrorism, torture, UN, USA, War, world economy |
By tigtog on April 20, 2009
As I’m sure most of you know, last week the Obama administration released some memos written by staff in the Justice Department during the Bush administration, memos written for the CIA to provide legal cover for the use of harsh [...]
Posted in Crime, Ethics, Law, Politics, Terrorism, USA | Tagged bush torture memos, cia, corruption, immunity, justice department, Obama, rule of law, torture |
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