Will Military Commissions Under Obama Differ From the Bush Era?

Starting this week, something will happen that was never supposed to when Barack Obama took the oath of office. A military commission meeting at Guantanamo Bay nearly five months after Obama said the detention facility would cease to exist will hold a pre-trial hearing for Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen More…

Conflict Heating Up Over U.S. War Crimes Trials of Children

The United States could be the first Western nation in recent years to try a prisoner for war crimes allegedly committed as a child.

So says the ACLU, which is calling on the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child and the U.N. Special Representative for Children and Armed More…