Tag: Human Rights

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.

Celebrated Indian poet and activist Varavara Rao remains in prison on trumped-up conspiracy charges.

The dramatic history of Guatemala’s National Police archive illustrates the crucial role of state archives in protecting democracy.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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