A $15 Million Dollar Torture Partnership
By Amrit Singh It has been common knowledge for a while that Poland hosted a secret CIA prison where Abd al Rahim al Nashiri and other prisoners now held in Guantánamo were detained and tortured. As...
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The International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC) in Siracusa, Italy, announces their 14th Specialization Course in International Criminal Law for Young Penalists on “Assessing...
View ArticleThe beginning of the end of border-free Schengen?
With Austria, Germany and Slovenia reintroducing or rather strengthening border controls amid the refugee and migrant crisis following the suit of other European countries like France, Sweden, Denmark...
View ArticlePutting the “Woman Question” front and centre: Professor Ruth Rubio Marín
On 5-7 May 2016, the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, hosted the sixth edition of the State of the Union, a space for high-level reflection on Europe. This year, these reflections...
View ArticleDigital rights are human rights
As the boundaries between our online and offline lives blur, is there really a distinction between “digital” and other human rights? UN Photo | Eleanor Roosevelt, holding the Universal Declaration of...
View ArticleDigital rights are *all* human rights, not just civil and political
The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights consults with the field This post was co-authored with Jonathan McCully Last week, following our strategy meeting, the Digital Freedom Fund...
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