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Posts Tagged Organization of American States

[UPDATED] Commission Inquiry Into Rendition May Rankle Obama Administration

By | 08.27.09 | 3:29 pm

Today’s news that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear the claims of kidnapping and torture filed against the United States by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Khaled El-Masri, an innocent German citizen and car salesman subjected to the Bush administration’s extraordinary rendition program in 2003, More…

U.S. Will Provide OAS Body with Obama Administration’s Position on Truth Commission

By | 03.20.09 | 5:57 pm

It was an odd but refreshing spectacle, to see U.S.-based human rights lawyers arguing to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States has effectively insulated itself from accountability for torture and war crimes, and ought to be pushed by an international body to do better.