Julian Assange

Human-Rights Lawyers React to a UN Official’s Definition of Rape

• July 7, 2019

A group of several hundred international human-rights lawyers reacted to a first-person opinion piece published by the United Nations expert on torture that “had a problematic definition of rape,” according to the lawyers’ open letter, published on July 1, expressing their legal views. The exchange between the human-rights experts and proponents and the UN …

Gender Violence, Human Rights

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Where Ecuador Stands on Assange and on a ‘Good Life’

Steven Edwards

• October 5, 2014

Ecuador’s foreign minister says his country will indefinitely host the WikiLeaks co-founder, Julian Assange, at its embassy in London if that is what it takes to spare him from an eventual extradition to the United States. In a wide-ranging interview with PassBlue during the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly in late …

Development, Latin America, Poverty, US Foreign Relations, Women

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The Assange Affair and a UN Diplomatic Treaty

Jayantha Dhanapala

• October 2, 2012

KANDY, Sri Lanka — The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be languishing in a windowless room at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, surrounded outside by a British police posse poised to extradite him to Sweden for questioning about his role in possible sexual crimes, if he dares to leave the premises. Yet last …