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End Torture is a campaign of Citizens for Global Solutions. Please join us.

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Tell your elected officials that the U.S. MUST be above torture and on the side of human rights and the rule of law.
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Background
End Torture is a campaign of Citizens for Global Solutions . Click here to visit our Myspace page.
Since the dawn of the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Convention Against Torture, the United States has played a key role in championing the rule of law and universal human rights, including freedom from torture.
But over the last few years, a range of damaging policy choices has led both friend and foe to question our commitment to the rule of law. Infamous violations such as the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and extraordinary rendition - where detainees are transported to secret prisons abroad to be subjected to inhumane treatment (effectively the outsourcing of torture) – have served to alienate our allies and radicalize our enemies. To this end, we have forsaken the basic American value of eschewing torture and cruel and unusual punishment, and put our own national security at increased risk.
This has undermined our ability to demand humane treatment of our soldiers and civilians by others. And by sending the wrong message that the U.S. is free to pick and choose when it wants to uphold established international law, holding others to account is increasingly difficult.
It is past time that we change course.
Our elected leaders owe it to the American people and the global community to fully investigate these fundamental breaches in the rule of law. We believe the only way this can be done is through the creation of an Independent Bipartisan Commission on torture and interrogation.
Please sign the petition , so that we can work together to recommit the U.S. to human rights and the rule of law.

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'Outlawed' - a documentary about torture and extraordinary rendition

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Dear all,Thank you so much for your help and support as we work to end the use of torture in U.S. interrogation policy and more broadly. Scandals like those at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo cannot be allo...
Posted by End Torture Campaign on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:06:00 PST

U.S. Army Reiterates Waterboarding Ban

By PAMELA HESSWASHINGTON (AP)  With Congress' approval of a new attorney general who refused to describe waterboarding as torture, the U.S. Army has sent out a message to its leaders repeating that t...
Posted by End Torture Campaign on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:33:00 PST

Meet the Author, New Mexico and California

American TortureCitizens for Global Solutions and Amnesty International USA present Michael Otterman, an award winning freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker, and author of 'American Torture.'...
Posted by End Torture Campaign on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:08:00 PST

Gonzales leaves a controversial legacy

By Michael A. Fletcher and R. Jeffrey SmithThe Washington PostWASHINGTON  The resignation of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales ends one of President Bush's closest and longest professional relatio...
Posted by End Torture Campaign on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:34:00 PST

Will psychologists still abet torture?

At their annual convention, psychologists officially condemned some brutal interrogation techniques, but critics decry a resolution they say isn't stringent enough.By Mark BenjaminAug. 21, 2007 | SAN ...
Posted by End Torture Campaign on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:19:00 PST

CIA: Rogue Agency Run Amuck

By Jim CarterA compendium of websites, books, press releases, and deductions describing alleged CIA nefarious actions.The CIA has recently released the "family jewels" that detail a number of operatio...
Posted by End Torture Campaign on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:21:00 PST

Torture In, Torture Out: The Arar Rendition Case

By Spencer AckermanIn 2004, a Syrian-Canadian named Maher Arar became an international symbol of war-on-terror excesses. U.S. officials, Arar told the press, detained him at Kennedy Airport in 2002 on...
Posted by End Torture Campaign on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:30:00 PST

US treatment of terror suspects ’tantamount to torture,’ New Yorker expose claims

US treatment of terror suspects 'tantamount to torture,' New Yorker expose claimsNick JulianoPublished: Monday August 6, 2007CIA interrogators told suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed that...
Posted by End Torture Campaign on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:32:00 PST

Bush's torture ban is full of loopholes

Bush's torture ban is full of loopholesBy David ColeJuly 23, 2007 | Once upon a time, a U.S. official's condemnation of torture was a statement of moral principle. Today, it is an opportunity for obfu...
Posted by End Torture Campaign on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:19:00 PST