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Douglas Cassel
Douglas Cassel is director of the Center for International Human Rights and a professor at Northwestern University School of Law.
Courting disaster: Gonzales as attorney general?
Is Alberto Gonzales qualified to be attorney general of the United States? By some measures, yes....
Saddam in the dock: Who will judge him?
A half century after the Nuremberg trials, the United Nations set up war crimes tribunals, in 1993 for Yugoslavia and in 1994 for Rwanda....
Bush-whacked: Has the U.S. disabled the UN?
In little more than half a century international law and institutions grew from embryonic dreams into strapping adolescents. But now they stagger under an all-American punch....
POWs:All is not fair: We need to get our house in order
"Disgusting” and “absolutely unacceptable” were the terms used by General John Abizaid to describe Iraqi and al-Jazeera television broadcasts showing dazed and wounded American prisoners of war and...
Milosevic in the dock: a challenge for the international tribunal
At last the biggest fish in the Balkan pond—former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic—has been snagged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)....
Why we need the International Criminal Court
This has been a good century for tyrants. Stalin killed millions but was never even charged with a crime. Pol Pot slaughtered well over 1 million but never saw the inside of a prison cell....
The Universal Declaration at 50: Changing the world?
December 10 marked the 50th anniversary of the United Nation's adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights....
Murder with impunity: Guatemala: Not ready for ‘never Again’
Nearly all of Guatemala’s political murders, massacres and disappearances have been double violations of human rights: first the act of violence, then the impunity for the murderers....
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