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20 May 2014, 12:57 pm by Judy Selby
Amnesty International USA again has been relied on by a federal district court to hold that the “mere loss of data” in a data breach case does not constitute an injury sufficient to confer standing. [read post]
5 May 2014, 11:37 am by Jane Chong
Last week Amnesty International issued a report summarizing attacks on journalists in Pakistan—at least 34 journalists may have been killed “as a direct consequence of their work” since 2008. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
Amnesty International USA (although I acknowledge that the 5-4 ruling in Clapper itself is in some tension with other cases, where the fact that there are multiple steps in a causal chain leading to enforcement is found not to be an insurmountable barrier to federal judicial review). [read post]
In testimony provided to the board in advance of today’s meeting, the ACLU argues — as it has in litigation, notably in Amnesty International USA v. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 8:55 am by Michelle Kisloff
Amnesty International USA, the court found that plaintiffs’ theory of future harm failed to meet the standing requirement that the threatened injury be “certainly impending. [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 9:11 am by Peter Snyder
[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] issued a press release [text] Monday demanding the US close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, calling the prison's continued operation "a prime example of the USA's double standard on human rights." [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 7:18 pm by Katitza Rodriguez
Los organizadores de Day We Fight Back son:   Demand Progress Access EFF Internet Taskforce FFTF Free Press Mozilla Reddit ThoughtWorks BoingBoing Los organizadores del centro de acción internacional son: Amnesty International USA Access (International) Anti-vigilancia (Brasil) Artigo 19 - Brasil Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (Argentina) Asociacion de Internautas - Spain (Spain) Asociación Colombiana… [read post]
22 Jan 2014, 1:58 pm by Katitza Rodriguez
The organizers of the Day We Fight Back are: Demand Progress Access EFF Internet Taskforce FFTF Free Press Mozilla Reddit ThoughtWorks BoingBoing The organizers of the international action center are: Amnesty International USA Access (International) Anti-vigilancia (Brasil) Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (Argentina) Asociacion de Internautas - Spain (Spain) Asociación Colombiana de Usuarios de Internet (Colombia) Bolo Bhi (Pakistan) CCC… [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 4:00 pm by Katitza Rodriguez
Hawkins, executive director of Amnesty International USA: "The big picture takeaway from today's speech is that the right to privacy remains under grave threat both here at home and around the world. [read post]
13 Jan 2014, 2:07 pm by The Book Review Editor
“It is impossible,” she writes in Chapter Two, “to imagine transnational groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, or Doctors Without Borders in the pre-photographic age. [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm by John Dean
The Obama White House has made clear that they will not negotiate an amnesty deal with Snowden. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 10:22 pm by Raffaela Wakeman
Amnesty International, who were not able to trace the surveillance program to themselves and thus could not establish standing. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 12:30 pm by Matt Danzer
Pauley III, of the Southern District of New York, heard oral argument in the American Civil Liberties Union’s (“ACLU”) challenge to the government’s bulk telephony metadata collection program under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 11:45 am by EEM
"Credibility Assessments as 'Normative Leakage': Asylum Applications, Gender and Class," Social Inclusion, vol. 1, no. 2 (2013) [open access text] EU Court Ruling a Setback for Refugees (Amnesty International, Nov. 2013) [text] - Comment re. ruling in X, Y and Z v Minister voor Immigratie, Integratie en Asiel; see also related BBC News article. [read post]
26 Oct 2013, 7:00 am by Nick Basciano
This week, the uglier side of the U.S. targeted killing program received a few careful reviews: Ritika noted the release of two reports on drone strikes, one by Amnesty International and another by Human Rights Watch. [read post]
25 Oct 2013, 7:13 am by Amy Howe
Amnesty International USA, during which Solicitor General Don Verrilli assured the Court that, although the human rights groups in the case lacked standing to challenge warrantless wiretapping because they could not show that the government was monitoring their communications, the government would notify an individual whose communications were in fact being monitored if it intended to use information gleaned from that monitoring at trial; that person, Verrilli told the… [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 9:31 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Amnesty International rejects the notion that there is a global armed conflict between the USA and al-Qa’ida and associated forces and the proposition that it is lawful for the USA to kill individuals they designate as members of such forces anywhere in the world at any time. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 11:00 am by Benjamin Wittes
The following is my my prepared statement for today’s hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. [read post]