2006.12.08

What You Do Not Know About Human Rights Challenges

The photographs of U.S. troops torturing detainees have shocked the world, but are Americans the only culprits? What are the misconceptions that come with military strength? How should we interpret the actions taken in the name of freedom and democracy? Is it possible that human rights issues and violations are taking place around us, but we are shutting our eyes to them?



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The Road to Guantanamo

Three British citizens went to Afghanistan to visit their family but were caught and held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a U.S. military prison in Cuba, for two years. What they experienced afterwards could only be described as horrendous. Why would this happen to British citizens? If they were not ethnic Arabs, would this still occur? How do we protect human rights and the dignity of all human beings?

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