When I was a defense attorney in the Office of Military Commissions in Guantanamo, President Obama issued an executive order on interrogation policy that ended the CIA’s secret detention program and required that all US interrogators comply with the Ar…Continue Reading

(New York) – The UN General Assembly should strongly reject Syria’s candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch said today. Syria’s attempt to join the council in the midst of its brutal crackdown on largely peaceful protests is a tra…Continue Reading

(New York) – The United States should demonstrate its concern over the Chinese government’s crackdown on dissent by raising human rights at all segments of next week’s US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, Human Rights Watch said today.
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