The fight against terrorism: The Bush administration's dangerous neglect of human rights

The Wars on Terrorism and Iraq: Human Rights, Unilateralism and US Foreign Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 113-131

  Roth, Kenneth ^a  

^a Human Rights Watch ^*  (United States)

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EID: 77649261349     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203421048     Document Type: Chapter

References (30)

1. For an elaboration of this argument in the Padilla case, see Kenneth Roth, "Foreign Enemies and Constitutional Rights," Chicago Tribune, November 10, 2002, p. 6.
2. Reuters, "Bush Assures U.N. Rights Boss U.S. not Using Torture," March 7, 2003.
3. Alan Cooperman, "CIA Interrogation Under Fire; Human Rights Groups Say Techniques Could Be Torture," Washington Post, December 28, 2002, p. A9.
4. Human Rights Watch, "We Want to Live As Humans: Repression of Women and Girls in Western Afghanistan," December 2002, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/afghnwmn1202/;
5. Human Rights Watch, "All Our Hopes Are Crushed: Violence and Repression in Western Afghanistan," October 2002, http://hrw.org/reports/2002/afghan3/.
6. Linda D. Kozaryn, "'On the Edge' with Rumsfeld in Afghanistan," American Forces Press Service, May 3, 2002, http://www.vnis.com/vetnews/usdefense/usdefense2002/usdefense2002-018.htm#7;
7. see also Glenn Kessler, "Study Cites Repression by Afghan Governor," Washington Post, November 5, 2002, p. A22.
8. See Sarah Chayes, "Afghanistan's Future Lost in the Shuffle," New York Times, July 1, 2003.
9. "President Tours Area Damage by Squires Fire, Ruch, Oregon," August 22, 2002, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/08/20020822-1.html.
10. Edward Alden, "US Drops Censure of China on Human Rights," Financial Times Online, April 11, 2003, http://www.ft.com.
11. For a discussion of the methods that the U.S. government has used to prevent judicial enforcement of human rights treaties, see Kenneth Roth, "An Empire Above the Law," Bard Journal of Global Affairs 2 (Fall 2002), pp. 32-6;
12. Kenneth Roth, "The Charade of U.S. Ratification of International Human Rights Treaties," Chicago Journal of International Law 1, no. 2 (Fall 2000), pp. 347-53.
13. See, for example, "The International Criminal Court," New York Times (National edition), March 29, 2003.
14. Human Rights Watch, By Invitation Only: Australian Asylum Policy (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2002).
15. Human Rights Watch, World Report 2003, p. 127.
16. Human Rights Watch, "Uganda Attacks Freedom of the Press: Closes Main In- dependent Newspaper," October 11, 2002, http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/10/uganda1011.htm.
17. Human Rights Watch, "Leading Liberian Journalist Re-Arrested: Facing Possible 'Terrorist' Charges," July 4, 2002, http://hrw.org/press/2002/07/liberia0704.htm.
18. Fred Hiatt, "Truth-Tellers in a Time of Terror," Washington Post, November 25, 2002, p. A15.
19. See also Human Rights Watch, "Opportunism in the Face of Tragedy:Repression in the Name of Anti-Terrorism," http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/september11/opportunismwatch.htm#Eritrea;
20. Human Rights Watch, "Eritrea:Cease Persecution of Journalists and Dissidents," May 16, 2002, http://hrw.org/press/2002/05/eritrea0516.htm;
21. Human Rights Watch, "Escalating Crackdown in Eritrea: Reformists, Journalists, Students At Risk," September 21, 2001, http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/09/eritrea0921.htm.
22. Human Rights Watch, "Opportunism in the Face of Tragedy: Repression in the Name of Anti-terrorism," http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/september11/opportuni smwatch.htm#Zimbabwe.
23. Human Rights Watch, Fatally Flawed: Cluster Bombs and their Use by the United States in Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2002).
24. Human Rights Watch, "U.S. Misleading on Cluster Munitions," April 25, 2003, http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/04/us042503.htm;
25. Human Rights Watch, "U.S. Use of Clusters in Baghdad Condemned," April 16, 2003, http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/04/iraqclusterbombs.htm.
26. See, for example, "Bush's Speech on Iraq: 'Saddam Hussein and His Sons Must Leave'," New York Times, March 18, 2003, p. A14.
27. Human Rights Watch, "Iraq: Killings, Expulsions on the Rise in Kirkuk: U.S. Not Fulfilling Duties of 'Occupying Power'," April 15, 2003, http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/04/iraq041503.htm.
28. See, for example, Ian Fisher, "U.S. Troops Fire on Iraqi Protesters, Leaving 15 Dead," New York Times, April 30, 2002.
29. See Human Rights Watch, "Post-War Oil Management Should Bolster Rights, Benefit Iraqis," April 18, 2003, http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/04/iraqoil041803. htm.
30. For more on this, see Kenneth Roth, "Give Iraqis Real Justice-Not a U.S. Puppet Show," Globe and Mail (Toronto), April 10, 2003, p. A21.