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21 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm
The Factfinding Mission was an exhaustive two-year investigation where “more than 1,000 victims and witnesses were interviewed, and a vast amount of documents, photographs and videos were analy[z]ed. [read post]
The US Recovered Over $600 Million in ISIS-Linked Funds – They Should Go to Syrian and Iraqi Victims
20 Feb 2024, 6:05 am
Editor’s note: This is part of our series discussing reparative measures for victims of international law violations in the conflict in Syria, through establishing an intergovernmental victims fund or other means. [read post]
18 Feb 2024, 6:16 pm
Any decisions regarding a fund should only be made after further consultation with a broader cross-section of affected communities, with victims and survivors at the center of the decision-making process. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 4:35 pm
It is a useful way of getting a sense of what is happening at the edges of the perception from the center. [read post]
27 Jan 2024, 2:29 pm
And, indeed, in this aspect, it is not truth or credibility that is important, it is the acceptability or praiseworthiness of the idea, fact etc. advanced, that tales center stage. [read post]
27 Jan 2024, 6:38 am
There is an urgent need to strengthen child-centered approaches within policies and programs supported by the international community. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 10:15 am
-Mexico Border: Immigration Enforcement and Control in a Fast-Evolving Landscape (Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 2024) [text] A Ten-Year Look at Inadmissible Migrants and Paroled Migrants at Ports of Entry (TRAC, Jan. 2024) [text] Too Few Immigration Attorneys: Average Representation Rates Fall from 65% to 30% (TRAC, Jan. 2024) [text] Journal articles: "Asylum seeker trauma in a student-run clinic: reducing barriers to forensic medical… [read post]
24 Jan 2024, 11:42 am
End torture, unjust residential detention, and persecution throughout China. 5. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 6:06 am
In 2019, we filed a civil lawsuit in federal court in California – where Gotabaya had fled after the civil war before returning to Sri Lanka to become president – under the Alien Tort Statute and the Torture Victims Protection Act, federal laws that allow for civil suits in U.S. courts to remedy certain human rights violations. [read post]
8 Jan 2024, 6:08 am
Mostaghimi discussed the suit in a U.S. court by a Syrian-American against the Syrian Government for torture in its detention centers. [read post]
8 Jan 2024, 6:08 am
Mostaghimi discussed the suit in a U.S. court by a Syrian-American against the Syrian Government for torture in its detention centers. [read post]
5 Jan 2024, 5:55 am
(Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a 2023 policy paper written by the author and Federica D’Alessandra for the Stimson Center. [read post]
21 Dec 2023, 6:06 am
Starting on Oct. 7 with Hamas’s attack on Israel, Palestinian militants targeted medical workers and ambulances with close-range gunfire and indiscriminately fired rockets that directly hit and damaged a medical center in Ashkelon on three separate days. [read post]
6 Dec 2023, 10:30 am
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, and the Lubavitch House. [read post]
28 Nov 2023, 4:58 am
All 11 Israeli hostages released yesterday arrived at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel’s largest acute care facility, the Israeli Ministry of Health has confirmed. [read post]
27 Nov 2023, 12:29 pm
According to the 2023 annual poll of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Arab public opinion is almost unanimous (76%) that the Palestinian issue is the issue of all Arabs and not just the issue of Palestinians. [read post]
22 Nov 2023, 8:16 am
More specifically, the prosecutor accuses the defendant of involvement in the 2013 arrest, abuse, and torture of two civilians at detention centers of the notorious Syrian Air Force Intelligence Service. [read post]
17 Nov 2023, 9:11 am
The court’s order serves to safeguard potential victims as the case accuses Syria of breaching the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. [read post]
15 Nov 2023, 12:15 pm
” This was a result of powerful testimonies and advocacy by various groups, including the Abolitionist Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights, which raised the torturous practice of death by incarceration to the committee. [read post]
15 Nov 2023, 12:00 pm
The case is based on France’s principle of universal jurisdiction, which permits the prosecution and judgment of torture, crimes against humanity or war crimes when the acts were committed abroad and neither the perpetrator nor the victim is French. [read post]
