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Witness against Torture Fast to Close Guantanamo

January 19, 2011
Witness against Torture Fast to Close Guantanamo

            Dear Friends, Greetings from Washington, DC and Day Seven of the Fast for Justice. We are 40 or so in Washington, DC and over 100 throughout the country. In this brief note, we hope to share with you some sense of what our days have been like as...
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TASSC International Hosts U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture

January 13, 2011
TASSC International Hosts U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture

  UN Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez with TASSC Executive Director Demissie Abebe   It was TASSC International’s honor to host the newly elected United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture on Thursday, January 13, 2011. Dr. Juan Mendez was welcomed with a luncheon followed by an opportunity to address survivors from TASSC, as well as...
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Ninth Anniversary of Guantanamo Shames United States

January 10, 2011

Press releases 11-01-2011 Today, nine years on from the opening of the United States detention facility at Guantanamo, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) condemned US authorities for their failure to close the camp and to bring to account those who designed and carried out torture there. Since the first prisoners arrived...
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Join Witness Against Torture

January 17, 2010

CALL TO ACTION: Join Witness Against Torture January 11-22, 2010 in a Fast and Vigil to Shut Down Guantanamo, End Torture and Build Justice “I believe strongly that torture is not moral, legal or effective.” Guantanamo is “a damaging symbol to the world… a rallying cry for terrorist recruitment and harmful to our national...
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Suicide Rates Surged Among U.S. Veterans

January 13, 2010

  By Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Jan 13, 2010 (IPS) – Suicides among United States military veterans ballooned by 26 percent from 2005 to 2007, according to new statistics released by the Veterans Affairs (VA) department. “Of the more than 30,000 suicides in this country each year, fully 20 percent of them are acts by...
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