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Torture exacts a toll on all involved. 30 September, 2005: Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Why not torture? With this week's sentencing of Pfc. Lynndie England to three years in prison for abusing naked Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and new public reports... click to read	Beyond Abu Ghraib. 27 September 2005: Chicago Tribune. The American military is a wondrous organization that deserves the deep respect in which Americans hold it. But the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have exposed... click to read	GIs: Beating of prisoners was routine. 24 September 2005: Chicago Tribune. Three former members of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division say members of their battalion in Iraq routinely beat and abused prisoners ... click to read
Rights groups fear resurgence of warlords; Presence on ballot seen undermining Afghan elections. September 13, 2005: Belleville News-Democrat. Human rights groups accuse his fighters of killing civilians, raping women and plundering at will during Afghanistan's civil war... click to read	Abduction makes few waves in Egypt. 3 July 2005: Chicago Tribune. Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, the man at the center of an international controversy over an alleged CIA abduction, is being held ... click to read	Darfur and a new court March 13, 2005: Chicago Tribune. Less than a year after opening its first investigation, the International Criminal Court in The Hague has begun to win support--albeit grudging and limited--from former foes in Washington... click to read
Report urges stronger monitoring of meatpackers. January 29, 2005: Chicago Tribune. Though illness and injury rates for workers in the nation's meatpacking plants have been falling, the government still needs to strengthen its inspection efforts... click to read	Colombia's demobilization plan falls short, rights group says. January 19, 2005: Chicago Tribune. A leading human-rights group Tuesday criticized a Colombian government proposal for demobilizing paramilitary fighters and urged international donors to withhold support unless the plan is toughened... click to read

Associate Director, Carroll Bogert, at a dinner hosted by Susan Manilow, commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda

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