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Torture Redux: The Revival of Physical Coercion during Interrogations in Bahrain here.
Liberia Is Not Ready 2010
A Dorsey pro bono team recently completed an update to their ground-breaking report for The Advocates for Human Rights highlighting the reasons the United States government should extend Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians. The report is available here.
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Liberia Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Attorneys in the Dorsey New York office worked on a project in support of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Tapped by the Advocates for Human Rights, Dorsey lawyers were asked to investigate, research and prepare a report concerning the United States government’s role in Liberia from the late 1970s until 2003, which included the lengthy and horrific civil war in Liberia. The report that the Dorsey lawyers prepared was used by the TRC members in preparation for hearings held in the Twin Cities (the first TRC hearings ever held outside the native country) and thereafter in Liberia.
The project included the review of thousands of documents received pursuant to a FOIA request; interviews of U.S. State Department officials, ambassadors to Liberia, Liberian government officials and scholars; and extensive research.
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Liberian Deferred Enforced Departure A Dorsey pro bono team in Minneapolis recently completed a report for The Advocates for Human Rights highlighting the reasons the United States government should extend Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians.
DED allows Liberians to live and work in the United States while Liberia recovers from its decades-long civil war. Dorsey's report, Liberia is Not Ready 2009: A Report of Country Conditions in Liberia and Reasons the United States Should Extend Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians, is an update of a report prepared by Dorsey in 2007. Shortly after the release of the 2007 report, President Bush extended DED for Liberians. President Bush's grant of DED was scheduled to expire on March 31, 2009, making thousands of Liberians vulnerable to deportation. These reports are available at http://www.dorsey.com/probono/specialreports/
Dorsey's 2009 report played a valuable role as the advocacy community sought an extension of DED for Liberians, who would otherwise be forced to return to a country that is not prepared to absorb them. On March 21, 2009, President Obama announced he was granting Liberians a 12-month extension to the March 31 deportation deadline.