UN Says Israel Has ‘De Facto State Policy’ of Torture
The UN Committee Against Torture highlights allegations, including dog attacks and sexual violence, by Israeli military personal, raising concern about war crimes.
Maryknoll OGC Joins Letter to Biden Asking for the Closure of the Guantanamo Detention Center
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined nearly a hundred organizations in a letter to President Biden asking for the closure of the Guantanamo detention center
Torture Is Not Past History
June 26 is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Find ways to speak out against torture.
Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Released
The resettlement of Majid Khan from Guantanamo Bay prison to Belize, marks the first time a “high intelligence value” prisoner has been freed.
Solitary confinement: Penitence, or torture?
The following was written by Kelly Kundrat, an intern with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, and was published in the November-December 2013 NewsNotes.
Torture: End prolonged solitary confinement
On June 19, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights held the first-ever Congressional hearing to reassess the use of solitary confinement. Attendance was so high the hearing room filled and an overflow room contained over 100 more spectators. Following the hearing, Kathy McNeely, director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns (MOGC), spoke at an interfaith press conference held by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT). The following article was written by Ainsley Rossitto, an intern with the MOGC, for the July-August 2012 issue of NewsNotes.
A call for the abolition of torture
Maryknoll leadership endorsed this statement in June 2004.