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Tag: Human Rights

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Israel's weaponization of images since October 7 obfuscates its genocidal campaign against Palestinians.

A. Dirk Moses

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

Stefanie Fox

“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.

Deborah Chasman, Noura Erakat

A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.

Rajan Menon

Amid ongoing reporting and ethical outrage, we need context for the fight between Hamas and Israel—and how it shapes possibilities for peace.

Andrew Ross
Feisal G. Mohamed

The legal doctrine of "superior responsibility" makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

Jonna Perrillo

In her new book, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández makes the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.

Jennifer Zacharia

Condemning U.S. deference to Israel, a cousin remembers the life and legacy of the slain Palestinian American journalist.

Zachary Manfredi

Critics say human rights discourse blunts social transformation. It doesn't have to.

Eleanor Davey
Twenty years of cruel anti-immigrant policy have left thousands of asylum seekers in limbo, detained in offshore prisons or in mainland commercial hotels.
Baher Azmy

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison by four American presidents underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

Sophia Goodfriend

In the high-tech culture of Tel Aviv, military-grade spying on civilians has become just another office job.

Anthony Dworkin

Historian Samuel Moyn contends that efforts to conduct war humanely have only perpetuated it. But the solution must lie in politics, not a sacrifice of human rights.

Faisal Devji

The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan sacrificed politics—the only viable route to peace—for massive corruption and violence.

Abby Minor
Liberalism cannot simply be extended to the uterus. Reproductive justice requires a vision of the social body.
Julian Aguon
The U.S. Department of Defense is ramping up the militarization of Guam. If we hope to withstand the forces of predatory global capitalism, we need to begin articulating alternatives.
H. Jacob Carlson, Gianpaolo Baiocchi
The American Jobs Plan mirrors past efforts at affordable housing that contributed to our problems and failed Black Americans. We need to take housing out of the private market.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs

If many marine mammals are on the verge of extinction, it is not for lack of environmental activism, but because we are entangled in a global financial system that it does not seem possible to transform.

Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla
Celebrated Indian poet and activist Varavara Rao is in mortal danger of succumbing to COVID-19 if he is not released from prison.
Kirsten Weld
The dramatic history of Guatemala’s National Police archive illustrates the crucial role of state archives in protecting democracy.
Liz Theoharis
The Trump administration’s sanctions against Iran and cuts to SNAP benefits are two sides of the same war that the rich are waging against the global poor.
Walter Johnson

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.

Joseph Margulies
They also acknowledged, for the first time, that the grounds for torturing Abu Zubaydah—who was detained in the wake of September 11 and is still languishing in Guantánamo—were mistaken.
Adom Getachew

The UN's "responsibility to protect" framework has failed to achieve a just international order. The Caribbean movement for reparations points the way forward.

Alex de Waal

The famine in Yemen is not simply “man-made.” Particular men are responsible, and they should be brought to justice.

Rajan Menon

U.S. foreign policy disasters fueled our current political crisis. But those who want a new approach must do more than point out past blunders.

Odeh Bisharat

The government’s new Nation State Law codifies prejudice, but therein lies a silver lining.

Mark Goodale

Global justice requires that we look away from Geneva and New York to the outer fringes of global power.

Scott Casleton
Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing is later this week. Here’s why we should all be concerned.
Lauren Carasik

A recent conference made it clear: military and corporate interests will prevail.

David Stein

Coretta Scott King saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.

Stephen Kantrowitz
We can learn from the surprising coalition of people who sheltered and rescued escaped slaves.
Adam Hosein

Stayed or not, Trump's ban highlights the need for strong immigrant rights.

Walter Johnson

How the history of slavery prompts us to rethink our notion of justice.

Walter Johnson

What can W. E. B. Du Bois and the black radical tradition tell us about Trump's election and radical political action today?

Walter Johnson
What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?
Eleanor Hildebrandt
Schools in Nepal increasingly use English as the language of instruction. But in the name of preparing them for a globalized world, non-mother-tongue education often fails the students it aims to help.
Tariq Mir

In the name of fighting radical Islam, Indian troops have gone to war with civilians.

Colin Dayan

Undocumented immigrants face horrible conditions in U.S. detention, with little legal recourse.

Lauren Carasik

Will victims of the war be served by the call for restorative justice?

Robin D. G. Kelley

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

Lauren Carasik

The U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

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