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Marieme Helie Lucas is an Algerian sociologist and the founder and former International Coordinator of the “Women Living Under Muslim Laws” international solidarity organization. Helie Lucas also is the founder of “Secularism is a Women’s Issue.” Helie Lucas has long been a critic of Western human (...)
Anissa Helie is an assistant professor at John Jay College. She has written powerful academic articles like Multiculturalist Liberalism and Harms to Women: Looking Through the Issue of the ’Veil’ and she wrote the Introduction: Policing gender, sexuality and ’Muslimness’ for the book “Sexuality in (...)
Human rights defenders are out in the cold at this moment: we have compromised allies on the left and the right.
The line of demarcation has been drawn. Is fear of Islam rational? or a mental illness, a phobia? Against the soon-to-be National Security Advisor Michael T. Flynn’s claim that fear (...)
The Issue
Torture by private individuals, families, groups or other non-State actors is an emerging, gender-based human rights violation. Non-State actors do not represent the state; this is in contrast to state actors, for example, police, military or embassy staff who are officials of the (...)
The below is a guest post from the brilliant Algerian secularist, Marieme Helie Lucas, to mark Day of Agreement. It is a must read.
Maryam Namazie
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In the past few weeks, in several countries, groups of citizens have openly taken a stand against Muslim (...)
WLUML letter to CCR regarding decision to represent Anwar al-Awlaki’s interests
The Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) international solidarity network expresses concerns and reservations regarding the decision of the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the American Civil Liberties (...)
I support human rights for all – and that is why I dissent from the uncritical legal defence of a jihadist who advocates murder.
I am a member of the board of trustees of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in the US and an international law professor of Muslim heritage. I spoke out in (...)
Anwar al-Awlaki has openly urged followers to kill several people, among them Salman Rushdie. Photograph: AP Human rights advocates have criticised two US civil liberties groups for mounting a legal challenge to the Obama administration’s policy of targeted assassinations by representing the (...)
Since the beginning of the nineties in Algeria, local human rights activists and women’s rights activists challenged the position taken by human rights organisations vis a vis Muslim fundamentalists and especially armed groups within them.
During what is known to people there as ‘the dark (...)
Karima Bennoune’s public criticism of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU’s case in defence of Anwar al-Awlaki is a welcome stand for a universal vision of human rights that has largely gone missing from western human rights organisations.
Many Asian, African and Middle Eastern (...)
Back in August, when I first heard that the Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU were bringing suit against the US government’s targeted assassination policy on behalf of Anwar al-Awlaki, a leader of Al Quaeda in the Arabian peninsula, I wrote Vince Warren, the director of the CCR, (...)
Letter to the Center for Constitutional Rights
Algiers, November 14, 2010
The Center for Constitutional Rights was the only human rights organization to support the victims of fundamentalist armed groups as it did in the case brought by Rhonda Copelon against Anouar Haddam [spokesman of the (...)
The ninth anniversary of September 11, 2001, finds the international community still grappling with the consequences of that terrible day.
Armed conflicts which began in the wake of 9/11 continue in Afghanistan and Iraq, spilling over now into Pakistan and Yemen with often devastating (...)
Two weeks ago, the Center for Constitutional Rights and ACLU announced that they were suing the government to get permission to represent Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen who appears from all evidence to be a leader in Al Qaeda and is on the CIA assassination list. They are working pro bono (...)
The independent review into how Amnesty vets partners fudges the issue of ideology and its collaboration with Moazzam Begg.
In the wake of the Gita Sahgal/Cageprisoners debacle, Amnesty International appointed independent consultants to conduct a review and recommend changes in the way that (...)
In the week following June 26, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the co-author with Moazzam Begg of his book Enemy Combatant: the terrifying true story of a Briton in Guantanamo, comes to the defence of his work and that of Cageprisoners. A bitter controversy has only fed (...)
It has been a strange, disorientating and upsetting few months for Gita Sahgal. The former head of Amnesty International’s gender unit was suspended in February after a very public and acrimonious dispute with her bosses. Two weeks ago she left it altogether. Her departure was provoked, (...)
Below follow two statements on the departure of the Head of the Gender Unit from Amnesty International following her making public her concerns regarding Amnesty International’s relationship with Moazzam Begg a former Guantanamo detainee, now runnning an organisation called Cageprisoners which (...)
PRESS RELEASE
April 1, 2010
Amnesty International responds to the global petition and a response from the petitioners
In a letter in response to the Global Petition to Amnesty International, the Secretary General of Amnesty International makes a shocking and incredible claim that “Defensive (...)
International: world human rights activists demand accountability from A.I.
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World Wide Outcry To Make Amnesty International See Reason and Make Amends
Monday 22 March 2010
People from across the world, including key human rights activists, public (...)
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