Guantanamo: A Feminist Perspective on U.S. Human Rights Violations

victoria brittain is Research Associate at the London School of Economics Council of the Institute of Race Relations. She worked for The Guardian (in London from 1981 to 2002) and is a contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique; New Left Review; and The Nation. Her many publications include Hidden Lives, Hidden Deaths: South Africa's Crippling of a Continent (1988); Children of Resistance: Testimonies of Children Tortured by South African Police (coedited with Abdul Minty, 1988); The Gulf between Us: The Gulf War and Beyond (edited, 1991); Death of Dignity: Angola from the mid-1980s (1998); Guantanamo, Honour Bound to Defend Freedom (coauthored the play with Gillian Slovo, 2004); and Enemy Combatant: Moazzam Begg's Account of His Journey from Birmingham to Three Years in Solitary Confinement in Bagram and Guantanamo (coauthored, 2006). She was an election observer in Zanzibar, on the Zanzibari legal/academic team, and a consultant to the Gaza Community Mental Health Project. She is an Adviser for the United Nations' study on children and war and for the UN report on the impact of conflict on women.