In the last issue of the Independent, Zach Martin wrote on the legality and morality of the CIA’s treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo.
Today, the New York Times breaks a disturbing story. According to the story, the CIA’s current interrogation methods were taken by verbatim from an Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during […]

Amnesty International releases some death penalty statistics:

The New York Times has an excellent read about the general sentiments of the Chinese youth towards Tibet. In essence, these youth are mostly establishment supporting patriots with an unwavering sense of pride in their government. For the most part, their concerns with Tibet range from nonchalance to outrage against the western media for their […]

I’ve always tried to not get my hopes up in waiting for a vaccine for HIV. Year after year I’ve always read about promising new findings/developments related to some research study that may lead to a successful vaccine. And year after year it’s disappointing to discover these paths may be dead ends. And so while […]

The New York Times briefs more news about the struggling populace of Haiti. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere, where the vast majority of the population lives on less than $2 a day. Haitians have faced a largely unstable government, with little support from governments like the United States, a nation which […]

Good Magazine has an interview with the oft-forgotten prime minister (in exile) of Tibet, Samdhong Rinpoche.
(HT: Matthew Yglesias)

Amnesty International recently gave a press release with the assertion that because of the Olympics, human rights abuses have actually increased. This is due to the fact that Chinese government officials are increasingly worried about dissent and news that sheds a bad light on their country around the time of the Olympics. As such, they […]

This week is Amnesty International’s National Week Of Student Action. This week students across the nation are asked to take action to push the issues of human rights to our government leadership. This year the topics of focus are:
CLOSE GUANTÁNAMO
» Those held in Guantánamo have been subjected to numerous human rights abuses. Many have been […]

In a previous entry I wrote about the relative neglect of Tuberculosis compared to the international HIV/AIDS movement. In today’s issue of the Public Library of Science: Neglected Tropical Diseases, they take it a step further, arguing for increased funding for a wide variety of truly neglected tropical diseases that affect the poorest of individuals […]

Amnesty USA releases an Urgent Action today:
Take action! You can speak out for the Tibetan people. Write to the President of China and the Ambassador of China to remind them of their humanitarian responsibilities.
Points to Address:

urge authorities to release the monks and others detained for their peaceful actions
demand full accountability for the detained, ensuring they […]