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A book that adds nuance to information on trafficking and organised crime. Human trafficking is the dark side of migration. Rising global inequalities, visible in gaping wage...

Poland accused of complicity in torture by US intelligence operatives of Saudi national. Poland is facing legal action over torture allegations. Lawyers for Abd al-Rahim...

A Guantánamo prisoner tortured in a CIA prison in Poland now faces the death penalty. It is a sign of how the US's moral values have been corroded in the post-9/11 world...

Committees to vote on updating EU rules. MEPS are today (2 September) expected to give their backing to tougher EU action to tackle human trafficking. A special joint...

The International Criminal Court has become part of a global justice system feared by those who commit crimes against humanity. Twelve years ago, world leaders gathered in...

Proposal also calls for mandatory sentences for human traffickers. The European Commission has proposed that websites containing child pornography should be blocked across...

A look at the European experience of forced displacement since 1945. The massive 'ethnic unmixing' in Europe at the end of the Second World War left a few pockets of ethnic...

Protecting trafficked workers is a job for labour inspectors, and not just the police. In last week's edition (“Time for the EU to acknowledge the advantages of...

EU governments should reveal the true extent of torture carried out on their soil. The ‘war on terror' long ago added ‘waterboarding' and ‘rendition' to the language...

Europeans should give former detainees a home and grant them a say over where they would live.> Closing the Guantánamo detention centre is a global imperative, not just an...

EU says it is willing to accept former Guantánamo detainees; US may help cover costs. EU foreign ministers have agreed on a declaration with the US welcoming the closure of...

Money to be given on a case-by-case basis, but declaration on closing of camp yet to be finalised. The US will consider giving money on a case-by-case basis to EU member...

The US has taken steps to improve its foreign policy, but one piece of legislation is still in place that causes concern across the globe. Guantanámo Bay, waterboarding and...

EU officials to head to the US in March to find more about the US's intentions; free-travel zone places question mark over re-settlement. The Czech presidency said today...

Decisions on providing homes for released detainees would rest with national capitals. Interior ministers will today (26 February) discuss the possibility of accepting...

Modest European deployments to Afghanistan will not do much to help US President Barack Obama contain the insurgency. An overwhelming majority of Europeans favoured Barack...

US has yet to make a request, but Portugal and a clutch of other states have already said they would be prepared to accept freed detainees. EU foreign ministers will on 26...

Justice for Darfuris is needed, not just for the victims but to help avert a repetition of atrocities, Human Rights Watch argues. The prosecutor of the International...

How to lose friends and alienate people. If it had been cooked up in the Kremlin department of fiendishly clever geopolitical plots it could hardly be more damaging. First,...

Amnesty International accuses European states of helping US detain, question and transfer terrorist suspects, and ignoring victims of extraordinary rendition. European...