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The logo for ExxonMobil appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
Top of The World
Top US oil executives to testify before Congress
A police officer drives a large blue and white police vehicle through town
Critical State
Federalism in violence: Part II
Syrian defendant Eyad A. hides himself under his hood prior to the first trial of suspected members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's security services for crimes against humanity, in Koblenz, Germany, April 23, 2020.
Conflict & Justice
Syrian officials on trial for war crimes in Germany
A large portrait photograph is show of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad with several Syrian flags flying behind it.
Violence
First Syria torture trial opens in Germany
Animation of a person lying in the dark in what seems to be a jail cell. Light shines in from a window with bars.
Justice
At a clinic for torture survivors, an Iranian refugee works to build a new life
CIA director nominee and acting CIA Director Gina Haspel is sworn in to testify at her Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill,
Conflict
CIA Director Gina Haspel’s memos detailing torture declassified
CIA Director Gina Haspel, wearing dark rimmed glasses, looks right in the medium cropped portrait.
Senators ‘kept in the dark’ as CIA director vote draws near
CIA director nominee Gina Haspel raises her right hand as she is sworn in to testify at her Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation, May 9, 2018.
Conflict & Justice
For some, Haspel for CIA head ‘would be promoting a torturer’
Gina Haspel Faces Tough Confirmation to Head C.I.A.
Full Episode
A man's image is blurred as he walks across a giant marble seal in the floor of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Conflict & Justice
What we know — and what we don’t — about Trump’s controversial pick to lead the CIA
Nominee to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Gina Haspel arrives for meetings with Senators on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, May 7, 2018.
Commentary
Haspel is Trump’s chance to reset his bad start with the CIA
Relatives pose with images of some of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa College Raul Isidro Burgos students in Mexico City.
Justice
The UN has accused Mexico of torture, cover-up in the case of 43 missing students
Fighting continues in Syria, where Kurdish troops from the People's Protection Units are facing down ISIS militants in Raqqa, Syria.
Conflict
Is Syria ‘the war of our time, a humanitarian test of our time?’
A satellite image of Syria’s Saydnaya military prison, annotated by Amnesty International, via Google Earth and DigitalGlobe.
Conflict
Amnesty accuses Syria of ‘extermination’ of thousands of prisoners
A soldier walks past concertina wire surrounding the outside of Joint Task Force Guantanamo's Camp Delta at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay.
Justice
Are the 9/11 trials at Guantanamo still about 9/11?
Justifying Torture, Kurt Cobain’s Unseen Life, and The Daunting World of Modern Love
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Justifying Torture, Kurt Cobain’s Unseen Life, and The Daunting World of Modern Love
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Syrian activist Karam Al Hamad at work. Hamad is currently waiting for permission to leave Turkey to travel to the US for a fellowship.
Conflict
After a year of torture in Syrian jail, an activist finally makes it to the US
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power reads a statement following a United Nations Security Council vote on a resolution about the ongoing crisis in Iraq on August 15, 2014.
Conflict
Shocking photos push Samantha Power to seek peace in Syria
Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of military police during inprocessing at the temporary detention facility at Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray in this January 11, 2002 file photograph.
Justice
He blew the whistle on CIA torture, and now he’s finally home from jail — and talking
Argentine journalist Jacobo Timerman, shown at home June 21,199.
Justice
His father was a human rights icon. He’s in the middle of a scandal with a dead prosecutor.
Supporters of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture attended a rally outside the White House in 2009.
Belief
CIA interrogators didn’t just break detainees’ bodies — they also attacked their souls
Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of military police during in-processing to the temporary detention facility at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in January 2002.
Conflict
Here’s how some veterans feel about torture tactics
Soldiers from the 35th US Volunteer Infantry subject a Filipino to the ‘water cure,’ a common ‘enhanced interrogation’ technique employed during the war to pacify the Philippines between 1899 and 1902.
Justice
America has used water to torture people for more than a century
The logo of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is shown in the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia March 3, 2005.
Justice
There may be reason for optimism following the CIA torture report
Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area watched by military police at Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray in 2002.
Conflict
How the US provides inspiration for terrorists groups like ISIS
A US Army soldier from the 1st Infantry Division stationed in Tikrit closes the entrance of the dentention center at Forward Operating Base Danger on September 8, 2004.
Conflict
Torture doesn’t work — so here’s what does
A demonstrator is held down during a simulation of waterboarding outside the Justice Department in 2007.
Conflict
For Black Hawk Down author, CIA torture report is no surprise
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein discusses the Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's anti-terrorism tactics on December 9, 2014.
Conflict
Here are four key findings from the gruesome Senate report on torture
A guard shuts the gate to the airport in Szymany, Poland, in 2005. Polish media said the airport was identified by Human Rights Watch as a potential site of alleged CIA prisons used to interrogate al-Qaeda captives.
Justice
Poles say aiding the CIA’s torture program ‘was simply being a good ally’
Leaked pictures from a man who allegedly served as a military police and was tasked with photographing the dead bodies brought to the military hospitals controlled by the Syrian regime during the civil war.
Conflict & Justice
Investigators say the photos from Syria show industrialized, systematic killing
Global Scan
New evidence suggests systematic torture by Syria’s government
Global Politics
Chaos, controversy mark latest military commission hearings in Guantanamo
Conflict & Justice
Man mistaken by U.S. officials for terrorist wins human rights case
Global Politics
Brazil’s government establishes ‘Truth Commission,’ but expectations are low
Uzbekistan may have program to forcibly sterilizing women for population control
Global Politics
Use of solitary confinement in America’s prisons criticized
Mental health officials try to help Middle Eastern refugees with PTSD
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Global Hit:’ Interrogation Music
Conflict & Justice
Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s Secret Vacuum Cleaner Design
The Disappeared, and Those Waiting
New Report Confirms Torture at Guantanamo Bay
Obama’s C.I.A Nominee John O. Brennan Has “Personal Objections” to Torture
Global Politics
Confusion Reigns at 9/11 Suspects’ Hearing This Week
Zero Dark Thirty and the Depiction of Torture
Global Politics
US Criticized in Europe on Torture and Rendition Cases
Conflict & Justice
Brazil’s Truth Commission Under Fire from Military and Torture Victims
Conflict & Justice
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Military Commissions
When Sesame Street Tunes Become the ‘Songs of War’
Incarceration in America: Barriers to Re-entry
Incarceration in America: Rethinking Solitary Confinement
UN Special Rapportuer: Solitary Confinement is Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Top of the Hour: Human Rights Concerns in Libya, Morning Headlines
Conflict & Justice
Middle Eastern Refugees in California Suffer with PTSD
Did Torture Help or Hinder Efforts to Find Bin Laden?
Global Politics
Unease with reform pace in Egypt
Conflict & Justice
Iraq, torture and the United Nations
Conflict & Justice
Illinois police chief faces trial for torture
Conflict & Justice
Supreme Court this week: Enron, gun control, torture
Conflict & Justice
John Yoo on expanding presidential power