Daphne Eviatar

Founding Editor

Daphne Eviatar (@deviatar) is Director of the Security with Human Rights program at Amnesty International USA. She advocates for US compliance with international law in US national security policy.

Daphne writes a blog on the Huffington Post and has published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Politico and many other publications.

Daphne is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, New York University School of Law and Dartmouth College. She was a law clerk to Judge Irma E. Gonzalez on the United States District Court in San Diego and Judge Dolores K. Sloviter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. Daphne is also on LinkedIn.

Areas of Expertise: Military Commissions, Federal Courts, Drones, Targeted Killings, Detention

Selected Media Appearances
Television
Bagram: The Other Guantanamo? – CBS News

Radio
White House Again Raises Possibility Of Closing Guantanamo – NPR (All Things Considered)
Just How Many Terrorists Has The U.S. Convicted? – NPR (All Things Considered)
Backstory: Detainees at Bagram – WNYC (The Leonard Lopate Show)

Online
Guantanamo pretrial hearing delayed as legal files vanish – Reuters
Is Guantanamo Bay Still Open For Justice? – Huffington Post (HuffPost Live)
Kill the Kill List – Foreign Policy