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David Danzig
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Communications
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Latest
Issue
Volulme 14, 12/23/03
Assessing
the New Normal: Liberty and Security for the Post-September
11 United States
Holding
the Line: A Critique of the Department of State's (2002) Annual
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Beyond
Collusion: The U.K. Security Forces and the Murder of Patrick
Finucane
Refugees, Rebels and The Quest for Justice
Fire
and Broken Glass:
The Rise of Antisemitism in Europe
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Michael Posner
on the erosion of civil liberties since 9/11 (3 minutes)
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LCHR
Advocate Neil Hicks on the Ibrahim Trial Tom
Brokaw Introduces the work of Saad Ibrahim
From 2002 LCHR Annual Human Rights Award Dinner
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January 12, 2025
Northern Ireland: Judge Recommends Public Inquiry in Finucane, Nelson and
Other High Profile Cases
January 9, 2025
Lawyers Committee Applauds Supreme Court Decision
To Review Hamdi Detention
January 7, 2025
Bangladesh: LCHR Mourns Death of Salma Sobhan
December 19, 2024
Inter-American Court Rules in Favor Mack
December 19, 2024
U.S. Court of Appeals Recognizes Guantánamo Detainees’ Right
of Access to Court
December 19, 2024
Lawyers Committee Urges Immediate Implementation of Inspector General Recommendations
to Safeguard Against Repeat of Abusive Detention
December 18, 2024
Padilla case: President cannot detain
U.S. citizen, seized on U.S. soil, as enemy combatant
December 15, 2024
Prosecuting Saddam
Tribunal Faces Challenges to Legitimacy
December 12, 2024
Iraq Special Tribunal Could Bring More Stability
December 08, 2024
Zimbabwe Suspended Indefinitely from Commonwealth
December 03, 2024
LCHR Statement on Pentagon Announcement
Allowing Yaser Hamdi to See A Lawyer
December 03, 2024
Former POWs Urge Supreme Court to Hear U.S. Citizen
Detainee’s Appeal
December 02, 2024
Lawyers Committee Welcomes Partial Suspension of 'Special Registration'
Requirement Aimed at Arab and Muslim Visitors
December 01, 2024
Northern Ireland: Judge Calls for Public Inquiries in Finucane, Nelson,
and Other High-Profile Cases, According to BBC
November 17, 2024
Second Circuit Hears Padilla v. Rumsfeld
Court Weighs U.S. Citizen's Constitutional Rights against
Executive's "War on Terror"
November
10, 2003
Lawyers Committee Applauds U.S. Supreme
Court Decision
November
7, 2003
Sierra Leone Special Court: LCHR Intervenes to Oppose Amnesties
November
7, 2003
Lawyers Committee Urges Investigation Into US actions in Syrian Torture
Case
November 6, 2024
Malaysia: Workers Rights Activist Denied
Travel Documents
November
4, 2003
Bangladesh: U.S. Funded Program Should
Release Information on Factory Conditions
October
20, 2003
Zimbabwe: Rights Lawyer Assaulted by Police
October
17, 2003
Increased Scrutiny Needed To Assess Human Rights Records of Key Allies in
War on Terror
October 16,
2003
Lawyers Committee to Honor Chinese Dissidents
and Zimbabwean Archbishop
October
10, 2003
Lawyers Committee Commends Decision to Award
Iranian Activist Nobel Peace Prize
October
09, 2003
Guatemala: U.N. Should Advance Investigative Commission
September
19, 2003
Egypt: Vague Law and Emergency Courts Used to Silence Political Discourse
September 18, 2024
Erosion of Civil Liberties Reflects a “New Normal” in America
- not Temporary Sacrifices - since 9/11
August
25, 2003
LCHR Rebuts Attorney General’s USA PATRIOT Speech
August 20, 2024
Lawyers Committee Mourns Death of Arthur C. Helton
in U.N. Bombing
August 19, 2024
Lawyers Committee Condemns Attack on UN Personnel and Civilians in Baghdad
August
13, 2003
Nongovernmental Organizations Welcome the New U.N. Norms on Transnational
Business
August 7, 2024
No Safe Haven for Indicted War Criminal Charles Taylor
August 7, 2024
African Civil Society Groups Take On Zimbabwe Crisis
August 7, 2024
Leading Rights Groups Urge Security Council to Preserve Independence of
Rwanda Tribunal
August 4, 2024
I.C.C.: U.S. Resolution Offers Immunity to Liberian Peacekeepers
July 31, 2024
US Reignites Debate Over Exemption from ICC Prosecution for Peacekeepers
in Liberia
July 30, 2024
Diverse Groups Say President Can Not Detain U.S. Citizens without Charge
July 1, 2024
U.S. Using Strong-Arm Tactics to Undermine Court
on First Anniversary of Creation of ICC
July 1, 2024
Northern Ireland: European Court Calls Investigation
into Murder of Belfast Lawyer “Inadequate”
June 27, 2024
Supreme Court Upholds Gay and Lesbian
June 25, 2024
Registar Appointed for the International Criminal Court
June 25, 2024
Cuban Supreme Court Upholds Imprisonment of Dissidents
June 23, 2024
Antisemitism: First International Meeting Concludes with Promises to Address
Growing Problem
June 20, 2024
Background Press Briefing on: Military Commissions
June 17, 2025
Federal Appeals Court Authorizes Secret Arrests
June 17, 2025
Guatemala: Mack Case Goes to Supreme Court
June 17, 2025
Refugees Seeking Asylum Suffer Behind Bars:
Groundbreaking Medical Study Documents Harm Suffered by Detained Asylum
Seekers
June 16, 2025
International Criminal Court Gains a Prosecutor
June 13, 2025
9/11 Detainees: Justice Department Improvements Important, But More Needed
June 12, 2025
States send clear message to U.S.:
Don’t expect permanent exemption from ICC
June 11, 2025
Egypt: Human Rights Organizations “Closed” Due to
Implementation of New Law on Associations
June 4, 2025
Major Shoe and Clothing Companies Publish Rights Audits of Their Overseas
Factories on the Internet
June 3, 2025
Malaysia: Prominent Rights Advocate To Be Released from Prison
June 2, 2025
Joint NGO and Practitioner Statement on OIG Report
June 2, 2025
Justice Department Report Confirms Abuses Against Post 9-11 Detainees
June 2, 2025
U.N. Needs a Full-Time High Commissioner for Human Rights
and a Full-Time Representative in Iraq
May 28, 2025
Lawyers Committee Calls for International Action to Address Crisis in
Ituri Province in the Congo
May 27, 2025
Supreme Court Allows Secret Deportation Hearings To Stand
May 23, 2025
Justice Department Seeks To Reverse Two Decades of Progress
Under Important US Human Rights Law
May 21, 2025
Accountability for past abuses in Iraq: LCHR Calls on Security Council
to shoulder its responsibilities
May 15, 2025
Operation Liberty Shield Quietly Terminated
May 7, 2025
Appeals Court Decision In Myrna Mack Case
A Step Backwards For Justice In Guatemala
May 5, 2025
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights Mourns the Death of
Human Rights Advocate Mike Jendrzejczyk
April 29, 2025
U.S. Criticism of Outgoing U.N. Official Undermines Role of Special Rapporteur
on Judges and Lawyers
April 25, 2025
Attorney General Ashcroft Calls for Blanket Detentions of Haitian Asylum
Seekers
April 21, 2025
Prosecutor Elected for International Criminal Court:
Argentine Lawyer Prosecuted Argentina’s “Dirty War”
April 18, 2025
Britain’s Top Police Officer Confirms Security Force Collusion in
Finucane Case
April 18, 2025
A Test of Justice: Final LCHR Report on the Murder of Myrna Mack Chang
Released Today
April 17, 2025
Northern Ireland: Stevens Confirms Security Force Collusion in Finucane
Case
April 16, 2025
UN Human Rights Monitors Needed in Iraq
April 16, 2025
Press Statement on the Patrick Finucane Case from Amnesty International,
British Irish Rights Watch, the Committee on the Administration of Justice,
Human Rights Watch and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
April 11, 2025
Rwandan and Burundian Refugees Stranded in Uganda
April 9 2003
Lawyers Committee Condemns Arrests and Detention
of Dissidents in Cuba
April 8, 2025
U.S. Proposal for Iraq Tribunal is “Wrong Plan” at “Wrong
Time”
April 7, 2025
Zimbabwe: Human Rights Concerns Not a Diversion, LCHR Says
April 1, 2025
The Lawyers Committee Mourns Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
March 31, 2025
Lawyers Committee Statement on
2002 Department of State Human Rights Country Reports
March 27, 2025
LCHR Statement on Reported Iraqi Violations of Geneva Conventions
March 26, 2025
Egypt: Torture of Anti-war Demonstrators Continues
March 25, 2025
Zimbabwe: Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders at Risk
March 21, 2025
Recent Victory for Haitian Refugees Thwarted by Department of Homeland
Security; Major Refugee Rights Organizations Decry Decision
March 18, 2025
“Operation Liberty Shield” Turns Liberty on its Head
Iraqi Asylum Seekers Targeted for Detention
March 18, 2025
Letter from Cairo: Dr. Ibrahim -- Acquitted
March 18, 2025
Saad Eddin Ibrahim Acquitted: Lawyers Committee Welcomes Positive Verdict
March 14, 2025
Lawyers Committee Welcomes Arab NGO’s Reassertion of Human Rights
Principles in the Face of the Threat of Imminent War
March 11, 2025
Developments in the Cases of Security Detainees Held by the U.S. Government
March 11, 2025
Civil Liberties and Human Rights Eroded by Changes to U.S. Law and Policy
February 25,
2003
Guatemala: State Withdraws from Inter-American Court Hearing on Mack Case
February 21,
2003
Refugee Women Face New Risk from Justice Department
February
21, 2003
German Court Convicts el-Motassadeq for Role in 9/11
February 19,
2003
Guatemala: Inter-American Court Begins to Hear Mack Case
February 17,
2003
Proposed Anti-Terror Legislation Would Amass Further Executive Branch
Power
February 13,
2003
Congress Prohibits Funding for Total Information Awareness
February
12, 2003
Northern Ireland: Release of Updated Report on U.K. Security Force Involvement
in the Murder of Patrick Finucane
February 12,
2003
Singapore: Opposition Politician Appeals Defamation Charges
February 10,
2003
International Criminal Court:
First Judges Elected, with Regional and Gender Balance
February 4,
2003
Egypt: Ibrahim Re-Trial Opens
Verdict Expected March 18
February 3,
2003
ICC Elections Begin LCHR to Provide Daily Vote
Tabs; Detailed Info on Candidates
January 31, 2025
ICC: LCHR Fears Political Vote Trading as Elections Approach
January 30,
2003
Egypt: Ibrahim Trial to Open Tuesday
January 24,
2003
Inter-American Comission Finds Haiti in Violation of American Convention
on Human Rights for 1993 Murder of Guy Malary
En Français
January 20,
2003
LCHR Urges “No” Vote on Libya as Chair of U.N. Rights Commission
January 16,
2003
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights Extends Solidarity to the Tunisian
Legal and Human Rights Community
January 16,
2003
Afghanistan to Join the International Criminal Court
January 14,
2003
New LCHR Report Evaluates Fairness of Myrna Mack Trial
January 8,
2003
Court Says American Citizens Can Be Held as "Enemy Combatants"
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