The Diane Rehm show Tuesday hosted a round-table discussion on the latest decision from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the rights of detainees held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Thursday the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to deny Guantanamo prisoners the right to challenge their detention. Implications of the ruling, and […]
Since 2003, sixty-four bloggers have been arrested the world over for posting their views online. According to a University of Washington World Information Access (WIA) report, 36 of those arrests occurred in 2007. The exact number of bloggers arrested may be higher. The Committee to Protect bloggers says at least 344 have been detained in […]
Since 1991, every June 16th mark the day of the African Child, and is honored world wide. This year the Day is dedicated to the right of the African child to participate, particularly to be seen and heard. Today marks “The day of the African Child,” which this year is dedicated to the Right to […]
Waging Peace, a British NGO, issued a report stating that between 7,000 and 10,000 Darfurian children abducted from refugee camps in Chad are serving as child soldiers. Please also see my other posts on Child Soldiers. The report comes right after the earlier report this month on the Release of Child Soldiers in Chad. Please […]
Today, the Supreme Court denied certiorari over a mandamus action filed by Syrian Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Ginco. While this was the first detainee challenge to be acted on since last week's Boumediene decision, it was a mandamus action rather than a habeas action and so Boumediene probably did not affect the justices’ deliberations. […]
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson The Supreme Court ruling granting the writ of habeas corpus to the 260 Guantanamo detainees is perhaps one of the most important human rights victories in recent years. Six and half years […]
"They torched our house, they burnt our livestock, I have nothing left and don't know where to start.", said 22 year old Precious, a mother of a six-month-old baby (Telegraph). According to UNICEF the continued violence is damaging Zimbabwe's children and the grip it has on the countries children fears to only be tightening. Just […]
Ethiopia's famine conjures up the horrors of starvation. The image of a 3-year-old child dying captured by cameraman Mohammed Amin and reporter Michael Buerk was witnessed by 470 million people around the world. This was in 1984. The inconsolable image of Africa was forever changed and made indelible by an emaciated boy. For at least […]
“Come, let us put our minds together to see what kind of lives we can create for our children.” -Chief Sitting Bull (Lakota Indian Chief) The future of the worlds children is in all our hands, it is not for one alone to strive to see that the children of today and tomorrow are given […]
The Top 100 Civil Liberties Advocacy Blogs was just released, and it is with great pleasure that I inform you that the Foreign Policy Association's Children's Rights blog has made the cut. The list, which was compiled by the Criminal Justice Degree Guide, is broken down by subject matter. Featured our very own blog in […]
In yet another resounding slap in the face to the Bush administration on its policies during the so-called war on terror, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday ruled 5-4 that foreign nationals held at Guantanamo Bay have a right to challenge their detention in civilian courts. “We hold these petitioners do have the habeas corpus privilege,” […]
Today marks the 2008 World Day Against Child Labour, this years theme is: ‘Education: The right response to child labour’. This year the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) has established the campaign to tackle the right to education for all children to brake the chain of child labour that envelops […]
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