Next week, the Supreme Court will once again hear arguments in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, a case that could severely curtail efforts to hold perpetrators of human rights violations accountable in U.S. courts.
Opinion piece on a proposed UN working group treaty to control private military and security contractors by Liberty and National Security Program Co-Director Faiza Patel.
Faiza Patel, Co-Director of the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program, also serves on the United Nations Human Rights Council's Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries. She addressed the working group on September 12, 2012.
Permitting small donations by text message is therefore an innovative measure that could invigorate citizen participation in the voting process, and the FEC should encourage providers to resolve the hurdles to implementation. But this proposal also has a potential downside: a loss of privacy.
Liberty and National Security Program Co-Director Faiza Patel testified before a House Homeland Security Committee on the impact that the committee's prior hearings on "radicalization" had on the American Muslim community.
