UN Human Rights High Commissioner: Investigations Must Go To Top Political Levels

By: Thursday August 27, 2009 5:12 pm

Today the UN Human Rights Commissioner included in a statement published by Reuters that the investigations into CIA interrogation abuses must include those who devised the “enhanced techniques” and ordered their use.

UN Human Rights Council Resolution: Maternal Death, Illness Are Human Rights Violations

By: Thursday June 18, 2009 11:58 am

The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a landmark resolution recognizing maternal death and illness as a pressing human rights concern.

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