Aryeh Neier

Aryeh Neier is President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations. His latest book is The International Human Rights Movement: A History. (October 2024)

The Return of Trump—III

On abortion, labor, NatCon, the rise of authoritarianism, the darkroom of propaganda, and the threat of mass deportation.

November 10, 2024

Torture in Israel’s Prisons

Recent reports on the conditions in Israeli detention facilities describe them as sites of systematic abuse.

October 17, 2024 issue

Counting the Dead in Gaza

It will take time to know exactly how many people have been killed. Netanyahu has only made it harder.

June 20, 2024 issue

Is Israel Committing Genocide?

I have been engaged for six decades in the human rights movement, which has endeavored to restore peace by enforcing International Humanitarian Law. Can the law bring a measure of justice to the victims of Israel’s and Hamas’s violence?

June 6, 2024 issue

Letter

Aryeh Neier

Counting the Dead in Gaza

It will take time to know exactly how many people have been killed. Netanyahu has only made it harder.

June 20, 2024 issue

Judge Kaufman, the Times & the ACLU

September 21, 2023 issue

Justice Not Done

April 19, 2018 issue

A Glimmer of Justice

‘The International Criminal Court in an Effective Global Justice System’

The International Criminal Court in an Effective Global Justice System

by Linda E. Carter, Mark S. Ellis, and Charles Chernor Jalloh

March 8, 2018 issue

Exchange

Helen Epstein

Justice Not Done

April 19, 2018 issue

Salvadoran Justice?

In recent years, Latin America has been notably successfully in bringing accountability for gross human rights abuses by former military regimes. Why has El Salvador, where 75,000 citizens were killed or massacred during the civil war, failed to follow suit?

February 2, 2017

A Better Cure for Mental Illness

February 25, 2016 issue

Under Lock & Key: How Long?

December 17, 2015 issue

Letter

Dominic Sisti

A Better Cure for Mental Illness

February 25, 2016 issue

The Burglars Who Exposed the FBI

The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI

by Betty Medsger

October 23, 2014 issue

Guatemala's Lawlessness

If countries were ranked by lawlessness, Guatemala would score near the top.

February 10, 2014

New Surveillance, Old Story

Much of the political surveillance of the 1960s and the 1970s consisted in efforts to identify organizations that were critical of government policies and gather information on their adherents. The NSA’s electronic surveillance practices are fundamentally different, but over time, they may lead in the same direction.

June 18, 2013

Guatemala: Will Justice Be Done?

June 20, 2013 issue

Guatemala's Genocide on Trial

The prosecution of General Efraín Ríos Montt in Guatemala, now eighty-six years old, stands out in at least one respect. For the first time, a former head of state is being tried for genocide in the courts of his own country.

March 27, 2013