AUTHOR'S BIO
James A. Goldston
James A. Goldston is the executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative. From 2007–2008 he served as coordinator of prosecutions at the International Criminal Court.
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What’s Wrong with Ethnic Profiling?
James A. Goldston Series: Human Rights 2009-06-24Following the terrorist attacks in the US in 2001, and in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005, police across Europe began using ethnic stereotypes in deciding to stop, search, and detain people. Such practices express contempt for the values on which the EU is based, and a new study shows that they are also remarkably inefficient in addressing the threat of terrorism.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 7928
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African Misrule on Trial
James A. Goldston Series: Into Africa 2009-01-20Just as Barack Obama's inauguration is a milestone in the struggle for racial equality, recent developments in The Hague mark progress in the struggle to end impunity for mass crimes. Judges at the ICC will decide whether to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for genocide, and then will begin trying Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, a former Congolese warlord.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 8633
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Judgment in Phnom Penh
Dina Nay and James A. Goldston Series: The World in Words 2006-06-23Three decades after the Khmer Rouge killed a quarter of Cambodia’s seven million people, a court to try the most responsible surviving leaders is set to open its doors. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 11724
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Europe’s High Court Confronts Racism
James A. Goldston Series: Human Rights 2005-03-01The European Court of Human Rights is hearing oral arguments in two of the most important cases in its history. As in Brown v. Board of Education, the case that ultimately broke the back of racial segregation in America half a century ago, the European Court is being asked to give meaning to the fundamental principle of equality. The resulting decisions could establish clear ground rules to guide future policy toward Europe’s increasingly numerous ethnic and religious minorities.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 14581
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The Khmer Rouge in the Dock
James A. Goldston Series: Human Rights 2004-06-04These days suspected war criminals - from Rwanda to Serbia to Sierra Leone - are in the dock. Dozens are still on the run, but hope remains that they, too, will face justice. This is not true of the perpetrators of the Cambodian genocide of the 1970's. They remain free, and nobody is looking for them.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 14525
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