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Joanne Mariner Esq.


Self Description

August 2006: "Joanne Mariner is deputy director of the Americas division of Human Rights Watch. Since 1994, when she joined the organization, she has covered prison conditions in Brazil, war crimes and other abuses in Kosovo, counter-narcotics policy in Bolivia, and super-maximum security prisons in the United States, among other issues. In January 1999, she drafted Human Rights Watch's submission to the House of Lords in the Pinochet case.

Mariner's most recent field investigations have involved guerrilla abuses in southern Colombia and political violence in Haiti. For work or for pleasure, she has traveled to nearly all of Latin America and Europe, and much of Asia and Africa. She is proficient in French and Spanish.

Mariner graduated from Yale Law School in 1992 and, after stints with the Nairobi Law Monthly and the ACLU of Southern California, served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals."

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Third-Party Descriptions

August 2006: Journalist.

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Organization Aug 21, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Findlaw Source Jul 18, 2006
Organization Executive (past or present) Human Rights Watch (HRW) Organization Aug 21, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Yale University Organization Aug 21, 2006

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Feb 28, 2007 New Light Shed on CIA's 'Black Site' Prisons

QUOTE: But Jabour's experience -- also chronicled by Human Rights Watch, which yesterday issued a report on the fate of former "black site" detainees -- often does not accord with the portrait the administration has offered of the CIA system, such as the number of people it held and the threat detainees posed. Although 14 detainees were publicly moved from CIA custody to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, scores more have not been publicly identified by the U.S. government, and their whereabouts remain secret.

 Washington Post
Jul 18, 2006 "Enemy Combatants" Who Have Never Seen Combat

QUOTE: Hoping to convince Congress to pass legislation to deprive detainees at Guantanamo of internationally-recognized rights, Bush Administration officials and allies...put forward a series of arguments, many having little basis in fact.

 Findlaw