by Robin Kirk | Jan 21, 2009 | Robin Kirk
I’m writing to stand up for all of the people in Washington on Inauguration Day who booed Bush when he appeared on the Jumbotrons and later appeared on the Capitol steps. I’ve heard several journalists decry the boos as bad form and disrespectful. I...
by Robin Kirk | Jan 21, 2009 | Robin Kirk
No one has said it more eloquently: “As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake.” Barack Obama
by Robin Kirk | Jan 17, 2009 | Robin Kirk
Just amazing what a psychic relief it is to hear this: This week, at his confirmation hearing, Eric H. Holder Jr., the attorney general-designate, did not hesitate to express a clear view. He noted that waterboarding had been used to torment prisoners during the...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 18, 2008 | Robin Kirk
Required reading from the New York Times: The Torture Report Most Americans have long known that the horrors of Abu Ghraib were not the work of a few low-ranking sociopaths. All but President Bush’s most unquestioning supporters recognized the chain of unprincipled...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 10, 2008 | Robin Kirk
I’m celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the first international forum on Archives and Human Rights, held in the Mexican Senate in Mexico City. The forum has brought together archivists, human rights groups, representatives...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 5, 2008 | Robin Kirk
Jeffrey Gettleman of the New York Times published an excellent piece last Wednesday on the relationship between Rwanda and the Congo, the site of one of the worst human rights situations currently on-going in the world. It’s impossible to understand the Congo...
