USA: Undermining security: violations of human dignity, the rule of law and the National Security Strategy in "war on terror" detentions

USA: Undermining security: violations of human dignity, the rule of law and the National Security Strategy in "war on terror" detentions

Index Number: AMR 51/061/2004
Date Published: 8 April 2004
Categories: Americas, USA

This paper argues that the USA's National Security Strategy pays lip service to the principles of human rights, and that the administration is failing to live up to that promise as demonstrated by the unlawful detentions in Guantánamo, Bagram, and undisclosed locations show that the USA.