History
- 1988 First to document Iraq’s use of chemical weapons against Kurds
- 1996 Exhumed mass graves in the Balkans
- 1996 Produced critical forensic evidence of genocide in Rwanda
- 1997 Shared the Nobel Peace Prize for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
- 2003 Warned of health and human rights catastrophe prior to the invasion of Iraq
- 2004 Documented and analyzed the genocide in Darfur
- 2005 Detailed the story of tortured detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay
- 2010 Showed how CIA medical personnel sought to improve waterboarding and other interrogation techniques that amount to torture
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