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...Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners access to a trial. Most of the prisoners currently held at Guantanamo were captured during the invasion of Afghanistan which began in October 2001. Many...
...Harvard has an ethical obligation to make sure that its corporations uphold this fundamental human right,” said Adaner Usmani ’08, one of SLAM’s leaders, yesterday. “If these corporations are suppressing these workers, we think Harvard has an obligation to desist...
...positions as air marshals to bypass security at Bush Intercontinental Airport and smuggle the cocaine aboard a flight bound for Las Vegas." First assistant US Attorney Don DeGabrielle said, "We expect and demand that our law enforcement officials will themselves abide by the laws that they are sworn to uphold. The abuse of the badge will not be tolerated." The two men are not yet required to enter pleas, and their attorneys could not be reached for comment...
...have run the cartoons--Middle Eastern Interior Ministers gathering in Tunis last week expressed no preference for how, although a prayer leader in Gaza urged beheading--strike Europeans and Americans as unreasonable infringements on the ideals of free speech and limited government. The Bush Administration has attempted to uphold press freedom while acknowledging Muslim rage, calling the cartoons "offensive" but defending the media's right to publish them...
...authority that promotes terrorism.Hamas’ democratic ascent to the helm of the Palestinian Authority highlights an underlying tension in U.S. policy of promoting democracy abroad. It is important to recognize, however, that supporting the democratic process does not necessarily entail supporting its outcomes. One can uphold the right of the Palestinian people to elect their government while disapproving of the unsettling result: the election of a terrorist group that both supports the destruction of Israel and the use of violence to achieve this end—two positions that are in clear opposition to the goal of peace...