Felice Gaer has served on the UN Committee Against torture since 1999, making her the longest serving American elected to a UN Human Rights body. Though there is little power vested in the independent experts who staff treaty organizations, Gaer...
By denying Mendez access to Bradley Manning, the United States not only looks like it has something to hide about the treatment of this one individual, but it is undermining the entire system of international human rights monitoring.