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Actor Ashton Kutcher and Elisa Massimino from Human Rights First testified at a hearing on ways to improve federal support for combating human trafficking and slavery. Mr. Kutcher, co-founde…

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) talked about U.S. leadership on human rights issues. In his speech, he said it was time to close down Guantanamo Bay and that “countries…

Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the applicability of federal criminal laws to the interrogation of detainees. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia h…

A panel from The Judicial Issues Forum of the Brookings Governance Studies Program talked about the situation in Sudan, international calls for Sudanese accountability in cases of genocide, …

Committee members heard testimony from State Department officials and human rights activists concerning the department’s 1996 Human Rights Report, which it released yesterday. They testified…