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After the recent death of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who oversaw the U.S. invasion of Iraq, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Iraqi poet and scholar Sinan Antoon about his legacy.

There was no fight against [US] torture, per se, before a trifecta of events in the spring and early summer of 2004 pulled back the curtain on interrogation and detention operations to reveal that the Bush administration had instituted a torture program. Before that, I was always on the lookout ..

Contemporary protracted conflicts across the Middle East have presented health systems and professionals with unprecedented challenges. The objective of this manifesto on conflict medicine is to highlight the need for a better understanding of the different pathways of injury and re-injury withi..

On 15 August 2016, a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit the Abs hospital in the Hajjah governorate of northwestern Yemen, killing nineteen people. The hospital, whose GPS coordinates were known by all parties to the conflict, was full of pa..

[The following statement was issued by Medceins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on 4 May 2016.]

Last year, 75 hospitals managed or supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were bombe..

Changing Ecologies of War and Humanitarianism: Reflecting on MSF’s 40 Years of Working in Conflict

Beirut, 4-5 May 2016

A Two-day conference organized by Médecins Sans Frontières, AUB’s Faculty of Health Sciences, and AUB’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Po..

Description of piece: A conversation I was able to record and edit between some of the MSF/Greenpeace search and rescue team members based in the Greek Island of Lesvos. It’s a rare sneak peek into the minds and insights of the people behind these types of assistance projects. <..

The United States has been in a continuous—or, at least, uninterrupted—state of armed conflict since 2001, and there is no end in sight. The strategies and technologies, as well as the locales of engagement and designated enemies of this “..

The CIA operates armed drones to engage in targeted killing operations in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. That is known. But, to borrow from former Secretary of Defense Donald

[The following statement was issued by Doctors Without Borders on 28 February 2013.]

Efforts underway at the United Nations to integrate humanitarian assistance in..

[The following report was issued by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on 6 February 2013.]

Misery Beyond the War Zone: Life for Syrian Refugees and Displaced Po..

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Torture, like genocide and crimes against humanity, is a gross crime under international law. The right not to be tortured is constituted through the prohibition of practices that purposefully cause harm (physical and/or psychological) to persons who are in custody but have not been found guilty..

This month marks five years since three men who were never charged with any crime died in US custody at Guantánamo under circumstances that remain unexplained and that were never independently investigated. The men’s names were Yasser Al-Zahrani, Salah Al-Salami, and Mani Al-Utaybi, and t..

The Oath, directed by Laura Poitras. USA, 2010.

The Oath by filmmaker Laura Poitras weaves a documentary account of the lives of two Yemeni men to off..