M. Cherif Bassiouni is president of the International Human Rights Law Institute and law professor at DePaul University in Chicago. Read about the institute’s International Criminal Court-Arab World Project.

Sanford Levinson is W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas School of Law and editor of the book Torture (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Karen Greenberg is director of the Center on National Security at the Fordham University.

Read a Sept. 19, 2011, CNN blog post about televangelist Pat Robertson’s controversial comments advising a husband to divorce his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife.

The Rev. Kevin T. FitzGerald is a research associate professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in the department of oncology. He is also a Jesuit priest with doctorates in molecular genetics and bioethics. His research efforts in science focused on the investigation of abnormal gene regulation in cancer and research on ethical issues in human genetics. […]

The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish Ethics in Wyncote, Pa., trains rabbis in practical ethics.

The National Religious Campaign Against Torture is a coalition of more than 100 national, regional, and local religious and secular organizations.

The Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition International (TASSC) has launched a campaign to designate June as Torture Awareness Month. TASSC’s campaign is being supported by a number of churches and faith groups. June 26 is the United Nations International Day in Support of Torture Victims and Survivors.

The World Organization Against Torture is a collection of groups fighting against torture in its many forms. OMCT International Secretariat is based in Switzerland.