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Human Rights Watch
March/April 2010
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
U.S. President Barack Obama has vocally promoted a human rights agenda. Now, his administration must translate his rhetoric into practice.
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May 22, 2009
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Kenneth Roth answers questions submitted by readers about President Barack Obama's plans to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay.
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March 12, 2009
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
President Barack Obama plans to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The United States should move the prisoners currently held there into the criminal justice system and hold trials as soon as possible.
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May/June 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay has become a stain on the United States' reputation. Shutting it down will cause new problems. Rather than hold terrorism suspects in preventive detention, the United States should turn them over to its criminal justice system.
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May/June 2008
Podcast
This audio includes readings of selected articles from the May/June 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs.
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May/June 2008
Podcast
From the May/June 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs: Shutting down Guantánamo will cause new problems. Rather than hold the terrorism suspects, the United States should turn them over to its criminal justice system.
See more in Terrorism, Terrorism and the Law
August 20, 2006
Must Read
First published in the Jerusalem Post, Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch discusses the indiscriminate bombardment in Lebanon during the summer of 2006.
See more in Israel, Lebanon, Wars and Warfare, Rule of Law
Updated June 9, 2006
Online Debate
Abraham D. Sofaer, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, discuss the merits of capital punishment in trying dictators and other war criminals in this CFR Online Debate.
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January 1, 2006
Must Read
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April 14, 2005
Transcript
April 14, 2005
Audio
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April 14, 2005
Video
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January/February 2004
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
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January/February 2004
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
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July 1999
Other Report
Backed by strong international support, the formation of a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) will soon replace the use of ad hoc tribunals such as those for Yugoslavia and Rwanda. The United States, originally a proponent of the ICC treaty negotiated in Rome in 1998, now stands with the small minority opposing the ICC. With the court likely to come into existence, the terms of U.S. participation in the treaty are now a vital question.
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May 5, 1998
Transcript
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March/April 1998
Book
By blocking international treaties banning land mines and child soldiers, the United States has become an obstacle to the advancement of human rights law.
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— Richard N. Haass
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