John Packer

John Packer served from 1991-96 as a United Nations human rights officer investigating human rights violations in Iraq. In 2003-2004, he was visiting assistant professor of international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. He is on the board of the Minority Rights Group (International) and is associate editor of the Human Rights Law Journal.

Abu Ghraib: origins and future of a scandal

Violence, torture and other abuse of human rights at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad precedes the United States occupation of Iraq by decades. Before the worldwide dissemination of the gruesome

By John Packer

/ 10 Oct 2004