By Gilbert Mercier, Associate Editor at The Indicter Magazine. Unless one lives in the alternate reality of religious beliefs, it has become impossible to deny and ignore a simple fact: very soon, perhaps within only two decades, humans will join the crowded groups of endangered species. While polar bears, lions, and elephants are solely the […]
Browsing Category: August 2017 issue
August 2017 issue / Human Rights
Extraordinary renditions and arbitrary detentions
By Professor Marcello Ferrada de Noli, Chair, Swedish Professors & Doctors for Human Rights. Image above, from The New Yorker article by Jane Mayer, “Outsourcing Torture“ As a legalized concept of international acceptance, Human Rights is considered a ’modern’ instrument, brought by the United Nations in 1948 after the ‘horrors of the Second World War’. […]