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13 Apr 2024, 9:56 am by INFORRM
Before joining the Open Society, Aryeh Neier spent twelve years as Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, of which he was a founder in 1978. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 1:00 am by INFORRM
” For the high-level conference co-chaired by UNESCO, global free speech advocates will convene, with Catalina Botero, UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression at Universidad de los Andes, and Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations, speaking at the opening session. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 12:31 pm by Anthony D. Romero
The ACLU’s position in this case was famously controversial and Aryeh Neier, the ACLU’s executive director in the 70s and a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, withstood withering criticism. [read post]
15 Apr 2023, 7:30 am by Just Security
Danya Perry (@Edanyaperry) Values in Foreign Policy: Jimmy Carter The Power of Jimmy Carter’s Vision for Universal Human Rights by Aryeh Neier Podcast: Russia and Press Freedoms Just Security Podcast: Is Evan Gershkovich’s Arrest the End of Free Press in Russia? [read post]
17 Sep 2022, 5:17 am by Just Security
Russia – Ukraine: Cyberwar AcidRain Malware and Viasat Network Downtime in Ukraine: Assessing the Cyber War Threat by Sam Cohen United Nations: UN General Assembly (UNGA 77) Tracking UNGA 77: Notable Moments and Key Themes by Katherine Fang and Clara Apt (claraapt25) The UN’s Summit of the Future: Advancing Multilateralism in an Age of Hypercompetitive Geopolitics by Richard Ponzio and Joris Larik (@JorisLarik) United Nations: UN Human Rights Report on China UN Report on China’s… [read post]
22 Jun 2021, 1:24 pm by Ines Santos
In this week’s episode of At Liberty, ACLU attorney and former host Emerson Sykes is joined by former ACLU Executive Director Aryeh Neier, who oversaw the organization during the Skokie trials. [read post]
17 Mar 2021, 12:44 pm by Ellis Cose
After World War I, it quickly became clear that the war to make the world “safe for democracy” had not made America safe for equality. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 6:13 pm by Anthony D. Romero
 “Ruth was careful to build brick upon brick,” said Aryeh Neier, then executive director of the ACLU. [read post]
11 Dec 2017, 4:59 am by Diane Marie Amann
Babcock,* Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and Faculty Director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide ► The UN Optional Protocol on the Abolition of the Death Penalty by Marc Bossuyt, Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Emeritus Professor of the University of Antwerp, Emeritus President of the Constitutional Court of Belgium, and former Chairman of the UN Commission on Human Rights ► The Right to Life and the Progressive Abolition of the… [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 6:30 am by Mitra Sharafi
" -Aryeh Neier"One of the world's most daunting challenges is securing the arrest of war crimes suspects, especially when they are high-level civilian or military leaders. [read post]
11 Feb 2017, 10:52 am
Aryeh Neier, for example, notes that ‘political prominence in the postcolonial period was hardly possible without a record of imprisonment during the struggle for independence. [read post]
11 Jul 2016, 6:31 am by Howard Wasserman
The latest edition of FIRE's So to Speak podcast features an interview with Aryeh Neier, who was the ACLU's Executive Director in the late 1970s, when the Nazis marched in Skokie and wrote a book on the controversy. [read post]
17 Mar 2014, 2:17 pm
“In a statement that will be formally released in the next few days,” the article continued, “the nine leaders — among them, former ACLU president Norman Dorsen, former executive director Aryeh Neier, former legal director Burt Neuborne and former legislative director Morton Halperin — dispute the ACLU’s view that placing ‘reasonable limits on campaign spending’ violates the First Amendment. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 9:51 am by Ronald Collins
“In a statement that will be formally released in the next few days,” the article continued, “the nine leaders – among them, former ACLU president Norman Dorsen, former executive director Aryeh Neier, former legal director Burt Neuborne and former legislative director Morton Halperin – dispute the ACLU’s view that placing ‘reasonable limits on campaign spending’ violates the First Amendment. [read post]
25 Apr 2013, 12:40 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Then-executive director Aryeh Neier, created the ACLU Women's Rights Project and named Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the first director. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Royal Dutch [Shapiro] SCOTUSBlog symposium on Kiobel and future of Alien Tort Statute; Damir Marusic reviews Aryeh Neier’s book on international human rights [American Interest] Tweet Tags: Alien Tort Claims Act, guns, international human rights, international law, United Nations International law roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
1 May 2012, 9:43 am
Aryeh Neier (Open Society Foundations) has published The International Human Rights Movement: A History (Princeton Univ. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 1:29 am
Aryeh Neier, a founder of Human Rights Watch, former Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and now President of the Open Society Foundations. [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 10:22 am by Kenneth Anderson
This was a time when Aryeh Neier was operating out of a tiny dark office in the New York City Bar building, and the organization was not in its current position of glorious NGO hegemony and a $44 million annual budget — meaning, an offer from a Harvard Law student bringing his own funding was not an occasion to giggle at the presumption. [read post]