Constitution. A few of Yoo's assertions include: a) any statute attempting to "interfere with" the president's use of military force would be "unconstitutional"; b) "torture" is limited to those acts causing pain "…equivalent to the pain that would be associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure, or permanent damage resulting…will likely result"; c) waterboarding [torture] and "walling" [pushing an individual into a "flexible wall made of plywood] or "confinement with insects, sleep deprivation for up to eleven days… as well as combinations of these methods, do not constitute torture…"; and d) "the Geneva Conventions do not apply to the Taliban or al Qaeda operatives" (Alexander, p
335). When President Barack Obama released several memos that Yoo and other lawyers had prepared for Bush he said he did so because it was "…a time for reflection, not retribution" (MacAskill, 2009)
For example, Yoo (with Bush attorney Robert J. Delahunty) wrote the following memo: "First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully" (Russomanno, Joseph, 2011, p
2). As for Yoo, he believed that "…the candid approach would be to admit that our old laws and policies did not address this new enemy [al-Qaeda]…" and in fact Yoo's boss, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, wrote that the president should declare "…the Taliban and al Qaeda outside the coverage of the Geneva Conventions" (Scharf, 2009, p
And one of the most shocking aspects of the Abu Ghraib torture was that female soldiers were participants in the torture of Iraqi prisoners. The photos show "…service-women grinning, posing, or giving the thumbs-up sign beside the tormented male prisoners" (Titunik, 2009, p
S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba" (Van Bergen, et al
These demographics are often the most vulnerable, as many of the women have no other choice but to work in a dangerous and largely unregulated sex industry, where they are the victims of the greatest human rights violations. For these poorer populations, who are in the midst of abject poverty, "prostitution is a means of obtaining survival income" (Day 9)
In this sense, the topic that Willis and Levy focus on is even more dire, because it deals with the impact prostitution has on children around the world, who often have no voice and influence over policies that could potentially save them from exploitation. According to the article, there are an estimated 1 million children who have been forced into prostitution around the world (Willis & Levy 1)
This order allows for a program called MYSTIC to "collect all telephone content from a target country for up to a month." (Mitnick and Brown, 2014) The report also found concerns with "bulk collection under section 215 of the Patriot Act and PRISM and upstream collection authorized under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act
[Liu Hoagie 1995, p. 214]" (Angle 1) This clearly indicates that China is a supporter of human rights but the stage of development of the country requires a different standard of human rights in different countries
But conflicting state policies have led to unsatisfactory results. (Foot 21) the human rights situation in china as portrayed by the western media is troubling
Bellamy writes about human rights violations in Eastern Europe in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Human Rights. Bellamy explains that "Before and during NATO's Operation Allied Force," local Serbian militia forces have been charged with "…horrendous crimes against the Kosovar Albanian population" (Bellamy, 2000, p
intervention in Chile," but the documents that the CIA was pressured to release (in 2000) showed strong support for a military coup. In a Memorandum sent to then presidential advisor on national security, Henry Kissinger, the CIA director admitted to "three years of massive covert operations" designed to "destabilize the government of Salvador Allende" (Kornbluh, 2003, p
"The more I knew those prisoners and listened to their thoughts, while, at the same time, I studied Marx and Engels, the more I became convinced that we were mistaken about the Communist Party," Pinochet wrote. "It was not just another party… it was a system that turns things on their heads, dismissing any loyalty…" he continued (Munoz, 2008, p
The final irony vis-a-vis the legal demise of Pinochet is that by releasing the documents, the United States helped England and Spain bring Pinochet closer to justice; and of course this was the same Pinochet that the Americans helped to illegally and brutally seize power from Allende in 1973. In David Wallechinsky's book, Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators, he explains that "All dictators stay in power through violence or the threat of violence, yet most of them try to gain the support of at least some of their citizens" (Wallechinsky, 2006, p
Roman Stoic philosophers such as Cicero and Seneca, also supported 'moral universalism' and argued that all moral laws originated in the rational will of God and the authority of such moral law transcended all local legal codes. (Fagan, para on "Historical Origins
Thus, he advocated conversion through peace -- as did the Dominicans and other missionaries in the field. Nonetheless, to accept De Las Casas as a historian and accurate recorder of events may be to do an injustice to those historians such as Bernal Diaz, who "wrote and revised tirelessly" in hopes of setting down for posterity the true situation of events as it appeared to them (Adorno 241)
Bernal Diaz's mind was not clouded by idealism and polemic. Nonetheless, it is De Las Casas who today is recognized as a kind of prophet of the "post-colonial world order" (Alker 349)
And yet De Las Casas himself was (typically) unsatisfied with the Laws, which he considered to be still much too soft in terms of the power afforded the conquerors. His constant appeals to the Crown to curb the exercises of the Spaniards is accompanied by lengthy descriptions and exaggerations of abuses (contradicted no less by other reports of missionaries who spent more time with the natives than De Las Casas actually did himself) (Bandelier)
Thus, De Las Casas could depict such events (as he himself had earlier in his life overlooked) with great detail. For example, following the conquest of Cortes in the 1520s and his subsequent distribution of "the labor and tribute of [the natives'] towns as spoils of war," De Las Casas could write of the conquistadors that they "behaved like ravening wild beasts, wolves, tigers, or lions that had been starved for many days'" (Benjamin 424)