only one of which is occasionally human rights. >> here in the united states, human rights watch warns terrorism prosecutions are alienating communities that could aid in prevention. you start scratching the surface and you see that in the huge number of these so-called terrorist plots, there was nothing until the f.b.i. got involved. >> roth says the nsa's extensive surveillance of private communications is harming democracy. >> there are a series of things done in the names of protecting us that are actually violating all of our rights. >> roth also talks about his motivation for getting into human rights work in the first place. finally, in july, 1938, he was able to escape to new york. by growing up and hearing these stories, i was very aware of the ultimate evil which governments are capable of. >> i spoke to ken roth in our studios israel soldiers and isr faiths been killed. whiffer is able to conduct ib vefrtgations. i think there is a war is hell an people got killed and that's not the way to look at it. the geneva conventions impose rules that are designed to spare civilians a

simply, we are human beings.all we are seeking -- simple -- freedom, the end of occupation, rule of law -- as simple as that. we think we deserve to be protected. we deserve to be treated as a human being. we deserve to have an end for this israeli criminal siege imposed on us for the last eight years. this israelind for criminal illegal occupation should have an end. we have the right to engage with created.tively, to be to much blood, too much suffering, if people feel there is only the rule of jungle. israel is doing this, it and supporting -- and supporting waye crimes in a deliberate as the high commissioner stated yesterday in a clear-cut way. think if people hate the west, the u.s., u.k., france, germany, who support this inhuman, barbaric offensive against the civilians, then, i think, it is a shame for any state supports that. this should have an end. for israel -- >> see, witness what is going on. >> for israel saying it is a must firing rocket -- hamas firing rockets and threatening their civilians? >>

human rights council -- last year, the human height -- human rights -- huamn rights council established inquiry. refugees from north korea gave the commission firsthand accounts of abuse and violence, and leading international experts described the government policies that repress their people. public hearings were held in sale, tokyo, london, and here in washington, d.c. video and written transcripts of those hearings are available at the u.n. website read -- we bsite. the commission's final reports was one of the strongest reports the u.n. has produced. the commission concluded that the gross violations of human rights have been and continue to be emitted by the north korean government and its officials are by the northed korean government and its officials. ations meet the high standard, the high threshold international law. the commission formally presented its final report to the human rights council in march of this year. after hearing from the commission, the council overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for accountability for those responsible for the abuses, and for the

we will continue our pressure in geneva, human rights council on the human rights report. we are also going to have discussions in the general assembly in october in which the commission of inquiry's report will be discussed. there will be a resolution that will be prepared and adopted for the general assembly by the end of this year. we are very active in terms of how we might further push this forward in terms of action by the security council. with regard to sanctions we are looking at sanctions. one of the issues that we need to do is try to do whatever we do in concert with other countries. sanctions by the united states alone are very limited. we have very little relationship with north korea and very little economic connection. to the extent that we can work together with our allies and jointly adopt sanctions and look at the actions we can take i think the more effective those issues will be. a brief quick comment, the three americans who are being held in north korea are of great concern to us. we communicate with the north koreans are concerned and requested repe

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that is tantamount to crimes against humanity. palestinian foreign minister meets with officials at the international criminal court at the hague, human rights watch accuses israel of shooting civilians fleeing for safety in gaza. we will speak to executive director kenneth roth, and john dugard. then, 69 years ago today, the atomic bomb on hiroshima, japan. we will go to the hiroshima peace memorial park and speak with a survivor. war rather than the people of the united states. i hate war. war makes everyone crazy. in the war, innocent people are killed. the ultimate case, i believe, is the a-bombing. a two star general is killed in afghanistan, becoming the highest ranked person killed in afghanistan. aikins speak to matt from kabul. up.that and more, coming welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. residents of gaza are returning to devastation on the second day of a 72-hour cease-fire. estimates of the reconstruction cost run as high as $6 billion. 10,000 homes have been destroyed , 5000 have seen

have exerts ought to the freedom to stand up for human rights. one way to think about this, the u.s. government provides funding for the iron dome, which fromcts israeli civilians some rockets fired by hamas militants and palestinian armed groups. where is the iron dome for civilians in palestinian -- iron dome for palestinian civilians? that is the basic question. is the u.s. government going to hold its adversaries accountable, but also its allies accountable? the death toll speaks for themselves. before any israeli civilians were killed i hamas rocket fire, over a thousand palestinians have been killed. a third were children. the death tolls speak for themselves and we need to value all human life equally. it is also important to note that we are not funding hamas rocket fire. we are funding is really rocket fire -- israeli rocket fire which is killed 4000 people. this is happening in our name as americans and it is our duty to stand up against a. -- against it. >> [inaudible] friends don't let friends kill children. >> the uses to which u.s.

we describe them, the crimes against humanity, the human rights violations. from this vantage point when you look at the kim regime, it's the regime that is less focused on his people and more focused on itself, and creating its place. so i empathize with the difficulty of these negotiations. we can continue to further isolate north korea, but we've also seen when we do that isolation have the kim regime responds in provocative manners. i think you accurately layout that this is not a u.s. north korea negotiation. this is a u.s.-japan-korea-china-russia negotiation in a friend the of regional stability. and of those countries, we all have a vested interest in creating a stable region. but the key really in this case lies with an active engagement on china -- on china's behalf. i guess, administrator davies, i'd like you to comment on the talks we've had with china, how china is viewing the new north korean regime and, you know, comments on china's role in moving these conversations forward spent happy to do that. thanks so much. china and north korea are not

ey ensure that our society maintains respect for common values and human digget indeed human life. there can be no security without justice and respect for human rights. law and international human rights laws and ensuring accountability for violations are essential for lasting peace. for the sake of both all inians and israelis, must act to bring the conflict to an end. the secretary general has trongly called for talks for negotiations of the underlying issues including an end to the the i will leel conflict in gaza. this is the only hope for peace. inaudible] i thank you for this opportunity to brief the general assembly on the humanitarian saleably in gaza. as with previous speakers we welcome the cease fire that began yesterday which has brought a pause toft violence and some much needed respite to the people of gaza who have suffered a month of intense conflict with little room to lea or seek shelter. we must find a sustainable resolution. over 1,860 palestinians have been killed. at least entified 1,70 were children. at least 122 palestinian families have had three or more f

[applause] the 2013 national humanities arrangingarleen for art and human understanding of the african-american inexperience through leadership. race, class,her and gender and showed how the struggles and successes of them african-american women have shaped the nation we are today. [applause] john paul jones. [applause] the 2013 national humanities medal to john paul jones -- honoring nature and traditions in architecture. mind behinde diverse and terrorist institutions around the world, mr. jones as design spaces worthy of the cultures that reflective, communities that were served, and what they inhabit. [applause] stanley nelson. [applause] the 2013 national humanitarian medal to stanley nelson for documents in the stories about the good americans through film by using his camera to tell both well-known and lesser-known narratives, mr. nelson is expose injustices and highlighted triumphs revealing new depths of our nation's history. [applause] diane ream. [applause] the 2013 national humanitarian medal to diane for illumining the people and stories behind the headlines. probing interviews for

from spears to go from chariots to turning humanity stops at nothing to invent new ways to kill. and with drugs already making college sister e. driblets are on their way this this is so on finite make coming to life. but the mercy of machines and what does it say to stand up and stop it before it's too late. now our guest today is jody williams political activist and a winner of the noble peace prize jodie it's so great to have you on our show so you work to get it thank you for inviting me so you work to get lend lines band and that want a new a nobel peace prize now you're targeting what you call the killer robots fully autonomy as weapons tell us more about them for those who don't know what they are in simple words sure i think when we say killer robots most people think of drones but killer robots are weapons that would make drones look primitive. at least with the drone there is a human being who looks at a computer screen sees the target and pushes the buttons to fire the missiles and kill various militaries are doing research on weapons that would have no human being inv

does investment mean there is also human rights.icial meeting, there is also a lot of side meetings going on as well. and in those side meetings they're really talking about the preeminence or the need, if you will, for the preeminence of human rights at the table as well. >> in fact, you were telling us today that it's human rights issues that are going to make-or-break the ability of these countries to make the economic advance. >> i think so. mayor bloomberg is right when you look at the united states. many of the things that the people of africa need are the things that americans value as well. one of those things is the ability to have your voice heard to live in a democracy. the people of africa want the same thing. and so if you are's going to see real development, real sustainable change that u.s. business leaders, frankly, want to see as well, we're really going have to make sure human rights are at the forefront. some leaders that are not respecting human rights, were not invited to the table, some were invitesed to the ta

focus to the human rights question. one senior state department official said you don't expect relegate your husband's release to all these geopolitical challenges. said, the issue will be resolved until my husband's release. there are hundreds and thousands of political prisoners. many people don't get the links between internal freedom and external peace. real quick about the issue of , the emboldened dissidents in speaking up for human rights encourages those inside iran. there is nothing more fearful for a dissident than feeling alone and isolated and not cared about by the rest of the world. we can do an enormous amount to increase the strength of dissident movements inside authoritarian countries by speaking out in supporting them. this help gives them the power to rise up. that is another issue that the west does not understand. i agree with michael about missing the conventional wisdom of the arab spring. tois fantastic to look back supposedly smart people in 2009, they said the best thing was a wise, charismati

>> qualitatively speaking, if you look at impacts on human health, water availability, the human water resources, food resources, land, the global economy, pretty much every sector of our lives, of human civilization, what you see is a business as usual fossil fuel burning scenario by the end of the century gives us highly negative impacts across the boards in all those categories. i forgot to mention biodiversity. a potentially large scale extinction of species. some of these we can quantify economically, or we can try to. some of them we can't even qualify how important they are. what is the value of the earth? well, it's infinite because if we destroy the earth's environment, there is no plan "b." there is no planet "b" that we can go to. how do you put a cost, you know, on the health of the environment? arguably you can't even do so. and in fact, it's that principle, that it's an infinite cost, when we start talking about those sorts of scenarios that leads some people to conclude that the precautionary principle applies here, that the potential impact of what we're doing is so pot

we have to speak out against the use of human shields. they fire on our civilians but they are using hospitals, schools, mosques in a way that is unacceptable. many people or friends of israel are asking how far is it necessary to go to achieve the objectives that you think are important? do we have to have this level of violence against the people of gaza? in order to achieve the objective you said, quiet. >> look -- >> targeting civilians or not, they are being hit. most of them are civilians and many of them are children. i would notall, rush to judgment on that. hundreds of hamas fighters have been killed. time after time, the statistics come out from a palestinian health ministry run by hamas and they say everyone is a civilian. weight. hold your horses -- wait. you will see that at least 50% of these people are hamas fighters. understand that we are under attack. the way israel should be judged by the international community is not by a standard of perfection. every serious responsible country has to act. how would we act when faced

and according to human rights watch report and the witnesses collected by the human rights watch, it seems that indeed these criminal acts have been committed in egypt during july and august of 2013. >> okay, so tell me about how they can be taken forward? who can take the charges forward? where can it be done? just explain for our viewers how it could work from here on in from your background in international criminal court? >> also there are two scenarios here for victims of these crimes. one is to try to have access to the international criminal court. in this case, egypt is not a state party. therefore, the only way to have these crimes or the perpetrators of these crimes held accountable by the icc ask to have a referral from the security council, or to have some of the suspects, those who are suspected of having committed these crimes, holding nationalities of state parties to the icc. in the other scenario there are some national jurisdictions with universal jurisdiction, national tribunals especially in europe which holds universal jurisdiction such as spain the united kingdo

human rights council. we are doing this press conference from geneva, because it's time geneva acts. there was a strong statement issued in marsh, countries that underscored the accountability. i think even those supportive of the government at this point would tell you the excuses have run out. it was first, well, instability, there's no election, no president, there is the new excuse, newt flavor of the month is the fact finding committee is poor, not slated to go public. the excuses have come to an end and time for an inquiry to be set up and look into these killings. >> we call for the suspension ow enforcement that goes to facilitate abuses. it's very clear that it is a moral imperative to states not to be facilitating the widespread system take abuses taking place in egypt. the third major recommendation is that domestic courts open up criminal investigations of prosecutions. crimes against humanity is a crime so severe that treaties and international law say it should be prosecuted anywhere in the w

rights defender he's a big and known well respected human rights writer a man no he's very serious in their normal condition he should not stay more than three to four weeks without food so that's why we are very much worried about him we think he and all the human right different should be released as soon as possible ok bill thanks for being with us noble rodger president of the bahrain center for human rights pre-shared. slovakia could veto the eaves attempt to impose more trade sanctions against russia next week the country's prime minister called the measures meaningless and counterproductive adding that there's no point in supporting sanctions like the economy that was echoed to by its czech counterpart who wants to revise the block strategy to further restrictions announced by european leaders at a summit in brussels with the latest escalation in a trade war that since moscow clamp down on food imports is the e.u. tries to curb the impact of that ban some politicians there got their own ideas on how to ease the pain one keeps put you know that. job is a culture minister believe

they ensure that our society maintains respect for common values and human dignity, indeed, human life. there will be no security without justice and respect for human rights. in dealing with humanitarian law and human rights law, and none violation of our essential for lasting peace. the general assembly an individual states must act to bring the conflict to an end. the secretary-general has strongly called for talks to lay cease-fireork for a and negotiations on the anerlying issues, including end to the legal blockade of gaza, and to almost five decades of occupation. this is indeed the only hope for peace. thank you mr. president. you to the united nations high commissioner for human rights for her briefing. i now give the floor to the assistant secretary-general for you and general affairs and deputy emergency relief coordinator. mr. president, mr. secretary-general, on behalf of u.n. chief, i thank you for this opportunity to brief the general assembly on the humanitarian situation in gaza. we welcome the cease-fire that began yesterday that has brought a pause to the guidance an

staff members here at had humane society -- at the humane society picked up the dog and brought it backaugust 1 but it didn't have a chance to live. >> reporter: with so many pets needing a good home it is heart breaking for the humane society to hear a dog had to be put down after being shot and paralyzed and it is more concerning to residents who lived in the neighborhood. >> sad. i don't see how anybody would do something like that. >> reporter: a brown male was hut by a bullet or high powered pellet gun. >> very shocked. why would somebody shoot a little dog. >> reporter: residents here called the shelter when they saw the dog unable to walk and in pain in front of their house. >> usually quiet. to hear someone shot a dog is alarming and makes me feel like they are willing to do that to an animal what are they willing willing to do to a person? >> reporter: the humane society says the dog had to be euthanized. >> the dog would never have sensation in his back legs. that led to our decision. >> she is holding her dog closer hoping someone will come forward with information. >> you kn

virtue of operating there. >> that's not what human shields are. in fact, under international law, human shields are compelling civilians or civilian targets to forcibly co-locate with military target did, but this is not what's going on. journalists, unfortunately, in the discourse on this issue have adopted this israeli version of the term without any critical assessment. >>> in the age of social media, citizenship journalists supplement mainstream news coverage of major stories and challenge dominant narratives. the images and reports, gazans have filed often belie the official line from israel that is so often adopted in other capitols, including washington. and they expose journalistic shortfallings or bias in the case of nbc news in the blogosphere besieged et network over who was assigned to cover gaza. on july 16th, aman filed hard hitting reports on the killings of four palestinian boys on a beach. he was pulled off of the story. nbc said it made the move for security reasons. an explanation that would have been easier to defend had the ne

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when human rights workers flew to egypt to present their report they were refused entry. >> human rights watch is, they say, unprofessional, in violation of the country's sovereignty and egyptian government rejected all allegations. human rights watch discussed the systematic dismantling of civil society, including the jailing of journalists, we continue to demand the release of three journalists jailed in egypt for 277 days. in june mohamed fahmy and peter greste were given seven year sentences, baher mohamed got an additional three years because he had a spent round in his possession which he had picked up at a protest. still ahead. >> good morning vietnam! >> robin williams dies at the >> robin williams dies at the age of 63. when you run a business, you can't settle for slow. that's why i always choose the fastest intern. the fastest printer. the fastest lunch. turkey club. the fastest pencil sharpener. the fastest elevator. the fastest speed dial. the fastest office plant. so why wouldn't i choose the fastest wifi? i would. switch to comcast business internet and get the fastest wif

these are very basic human rights. human rights, even for those under occupations. when you say something like, i want my political prisoners as you've signed on, released, i want you to stop violating your agreements. i want you to lift the siege of gaza because gaza should not be under siege. i would like you to allow for the reconstruction of those 10,000 houses that you destroyed. i want our injured, who cannot seek treatment in our own hospitals half of which you destroyed, and the schools which you destroyed to be able to get some sort of treatment outside. we want to be able to fish in our sea because guess what? people don't find food according to anymore. a lot of those basic demands are human rights demands, are natural demands of people to live as humans, not as subhumans. now there are the other demands that have to do with more of the political nature, something like what happens next? how many crossings you going to open? how you going to allow the gaza strip to o open up to west bank and east jerusalem? can families be reunified throughout palestine?

assistant professor of humanities in reno. she is a true scholar and thinker and compassion and an intelligent. she was a treat to work with here as she was our lead historian on this project. she created a really powerful book that you can purchase. tonight, she will unfold for you some of those complicated narratives of such a beautiful and powerful place. without further ado, i would like to bring up fellow historian and dear friend jen huntley. thank you for supporting the work we do. [applause] >>. introduction is a hard act -- that introduction is a hard act to follow. i want to thank the staff. this has been a wonderful experience for me. i have done a little museum work before, but this is the first time i got to get involved in some territorial activity and people here were so supportive. . cannot imagine a better time i want to start out by saying, a century and a half ago, the union congress passed an act to set aside several acres of land that most americans had never seen or heard about. as a recreational park to

but very human. and i think the audience is really going to start connecting to john simms' character because he's this every day man caught in this circumstance. and then we have fascinating performances by the little milley brown, this little girl who starts acting like a sociopath. a very nasty things occurs with a cat. yeah, james fran is a wonderful actor. robs forester is incredible. an amazing ke ining cast and pr >> at this point in your life and career academy award already having been secured, what are you looking for artistically in the characters you choose to play? i get the point about the story art that you get a chance to develop like you couldn't necessarily in a film. but is that what drew you to this? >> what drew me originally was glen morgan and the stript and the book because i kind of got all of them at once. i met with him. i read the script. the first four. >> you read the scripts or the book first? >> i part of the book in preparation. and i said is it about this? and he sai

so it really is in the human situation was completely untested. and so far there have been now five treatment courses that you correctly mentioned. two went to the americans. it's impossible to tell with that small number whether or not there was any positive effect. it doesn't seem to have done them any harm, but we certainly can't determine if there was a positive affect. the spanish priest received it. he was very sick, and he died. as you mentioned now two treatment courses have been sent to liberia for use in liberian physicians who are ill. so the answer to your question is its completely untested in a human trial. >> and to follow up on that, dr. fauci, how will any information be gleaned from the two medical professionals treated, the two americans. is it just more numbers needed before any information can be gleaned from their cases and their treatment? >> well, if you want find out if an intervention is safe and effective, and you really get a definitive answer at the same time as being sensitive to the compelling need to get it to peopl

again, israel must value human life equally.nd again hiding those weapons is straight out of the playbook that they put thousands of dollars to come up with, talking points to win over a western audience. when you see talking point, look at the reality. >> do you want to say anything? >> my client, they claimed he was throwing molotov cocktails. completely false. he was not engaging in the illegal activity and he witnessed what happened, and it is ready please try to convince the molotov cocktails, which for me is really irrelevant because nothing can -- nonetheless israel has a history of claiming the victim and fabricating lies. we documented that. >> i want to profoundly thank all of our panelists for their heartfelt words here, their expert testimony, there work for justice and for peace. laila, brad parker and sunjeev bery. thank you all for attending. for more information about this issue, please see the website of the u.s. campaign to end the israeli occupation at the end of the occupation.org. thank you very much for com

i think human rights is a real achilles' heel of the iranian regime. they are dependent upon external actors to some degree. their economy is being hit hard. if we understand this human rights issue not just as the right thing to do morally but that opening up this closed society is critical to the peace and stability of the region, we will begin to utilize it as a tool in the war against theocracy and dictatorship. >> do you want to add to that? >> i have been writing on this for 30 years. there is a real identity. this is an identity between moral imperatives and strategic imperatives. it's rare that you find such a perfect fit. the degree to which the myth of rouhani has been created along the same lines as the myth of gorbachev is a real throwback. do you remember back in those days? one soviet dictator after another. they liked jazz. there is a human element to them and so on. he is a man of the system. came of age in it. he worked in it all his life. he has always been a loyal servant. now here he is at the top. why does he take all these differe

these are crimes against humanity humanity. there were crimes. they are crimes against all of humankind. the responsibility needs to be taken for these acts and the international community needs to take responsibility as well. needs to resume its responsibility. rhetoric is not enough at this point. we must demand the immediate withdrawal by israel from the palestinian territories we would like to commend the commissioner general of unra and the high commissioner of human rights as well as other indicted officials for their strong statement condemning the actions in this conflict particularly the attacks on the unra schools. israeli authorities have disregarded their obligations. they have disregarded the security council resolutions the human rights council resolutions and they have only continued to pursue their course of action. it is as if they think they are above the law. the military actions against civilians in gaza are unceasing. the obstacles facing the civilian populations only continued to increase. it is a humanitarian catastrophe. i

the un's human rights council has become a forum for human rights violators.and that is accepted by most of the world. even major organizations are selective about human rights, that is why your organization came into being. this is a challenging time to make the case. and by the way the arab spring , has not -- we have not seen human rights flowering from the soil, as some had hoped. this is a challenging time to promote human rights with moral clarity or as a strategic imperative. >> no doubt. you got to the heart of the challenge i face everyday. on capitol hill and in the state department, it is just too frequent to hear yeah, this democracy stuff, but better sisi than the brotherhood and better assad than isis. just go down the list. better king abdullah than what waits in the wings. people in policymaking circles and even amongst the general public do not understand what tyrrany does to increase radicalism. they do not have to question where the muslim brotherhood came from, 30 years of brutal dictatorship that decimated political discourse and wrecked t

>> nations are made of humanity. humanity operates as an anxiety ridden entity.ost actions by human nature are driven by anxiety. >> anxiety is also fear? >> fear betrayal. anxiety, desperation, hurt. >> my wife has the expression which is a motto in our family. hurt people hurt people. to think you can come to the table, whether you are the israelis or palestinians, americans or native americans and think only you are right and the other is wrong? that you hold no responsibility for the history of your relationship is madness. and what has gone on in this world in these troubled areas, whether at our dinner table or in our fellow nations, when they are troubled, usually that trouble is not sustainable. and the only way to create a sustainable system is to sit and face our fears, walk directly into the fire, speak with who you are terrified with -- >> your friend benjamin netanyahu, who has been in that chair, and will again, he would say i have responsibility. i carry on my shoulders my father, my brother, who was shot. i can't trust. it is hard. until i am sure