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Investigate or Else
Human Rights Watch issued this month a scathing 108-page report, Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees, amasssing evidence and calling on the United States...
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Relocating Punishment
Governments often prefer deporting foreigners accused of international crimes than trying them on the basis of universal jurisdiction. Their rationale is usually practical, focused on the procedural...
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Adjudicating Pain
Until this past week, the United States was the only country where universal jurisdiction has been used in civil human rights cases. This week, a Dutch court joined it, awarding one million euros to...
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In London and Kathmandu, Progress without Illusions
If two wrongs don’t make a right, one right isn’t always enough. The UK’s recent use of universal jurisdiction against a Nepali colonel, for torture committed during his country’s civil war in 2005,...
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