Talking Rights

The just-released report by the CIA Inspector General (CIA IG) is one of a series of documents released yesterday about the US torture program. The report dates from 2004, but has lots of new detail.
What you need to know about yesterday’s revelations (via Time’s Michael Scherer):

1. The CIA IG concluded that the public had [...]

The Obama Administration just announced the creation of a new, multi-institution group that will take over the questioning of high-value suspects in the “war on terror.” According to the Los Angeles Times, interrogators will “stay within the parameters of the Army Field Manual when questioning suspects,” meaning no torture.
This comes on a day when we [...]

With Secretary Clinton’s trip to Africa highlighting the fighting that continues in the Congo, an opinion piece in the Washington Post is calling for American troops to support the tiny UN force.
Michael O’ Hanlon, at Brookings writes:
If the situation is to improve, we need to do the one thing that is required above all others [...]

As part of our effort to practice human rights at home as well as far away, the Duke Human Rights Center sponsors a Durham project that seeks to use the legacy of one of our most illustrious daughters, Pauli Murray, to spur more knowledge about our past and build a constituency interested in positive change [...]