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Regarding Rights: Torture admission by USA at UN treaty body review
06 January 2015Cynthia Banham writes about the USA appearing before the UN Committee Against Torture and admitting to the use of torture as a matter of policy after 11 September 2001.
2014 Tunisian elections - closing the credibility gap
17 December 2014According to veteran electoral administrator Michael Maley, elections are the biggest logistical events of peacetime.
Regarding Rights: Fighting government surveillance with industry transparency reports
11 December 2014Natasha Tusikov from the Baldy Centre for Law and Social Policy, State University of Buffalo (SUNY), poses important questions about the growing number of transparency reports published by internet firms in the wake of revelations about National Security Agency surveillance leaked by Edward Snowden .
Regarding Rights: UNHCR launches 10 year campaign to eradicate statelessness
24 November 2014Christoph Sperfeldt reports on the launching of a 10-year campaign to eradicate statelessness by the year 2024 by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Regarding Rights blog - De facto immunity for Kenyan President?
14 November 2014Rosemary Gray provides an update on the International Criminal Court proceedings against Kenyan politicians for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during Kenya’s 2007-08 post-election violence.
Regarding Rights blog: Corporate gatekeepers on the internet
14 November 2014Natasha Tusikov discusses the regulatory and surveillance practices of some of the largest U.S.-based Internet companies.
Regarding Rights: The politics of Australian asylum and border policy
17 October 2014Jonathan Kent writes about the challenges ahead for the Australian government’s asylum and border policy.
Regarding Rights: Human Rights concerns over reinstated PNG death penalty
26 September 2014Betheli O’Carroll reports on legislation amended in Papua New Guinea that extends the death penalty to cover more criminal offences despite studies showing that the death penalty does not act as a deterrent to crime.
Regarding Rights blog - Tainted UN Peacekeepers: Reportage from the Ground
29 August 2014Mandira Sharma, Ingrid Massage, Suhas Chakma, Ben Schonveld and Kathryn Johnson report that here have been consistent reports of serious rights violations—in particular sexual exploitation and abuses — by peacekeepers.
Regarding Rights: Making reparation for Khmer Rouge crimes at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
26 August 2014Cheryl White delves into the Khmer Rouge trials and the part these trials may play giving new hope to victims of crimes in contexts where previously the hope of a meaningful remedy had been lost.
