Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Tag: human rights

Apartheid is now genocide

Israel's ongoing military offensive in Gaza has raised serious allegations of genocide, sparking global outrage and legal actions. Explore the deepening crisis and the international response to these critical developments.

South Africa levels genocide accusations against Israel at ICJ

Israel's operations in Gaza under scrutiny as ICJ hears 'no innocents' claim.

The killing of Gaza’s environment

Or how to create an unlivable hellscape on one strip of land.

Labor and Green Colonialism in the Global South

What will happen to workers in the transition to clean energy?

Diplomatic tensions rise as Israel counters South Africa’s genocide accusations at...

Amidst tensions, Israel counters South Africa's genocide case at the ICJ. A high-stakes legal and diplomatic battle unfolds, with global implications for justice and human rights.

Coalition of “grassroots diplomats” take the lead on international solidarity with...

Global solidarity rises: activists spearhead campaign for justice in Gaza at International Court.

‘I cannot be quietly complicit’: Biden official resigns over Gaza assault

"I cannot represent an administration that does not value all human life equally."

The Palestine exception to campus free speech

“Solidarity is the kind of presence that costs you something.”

Gaza on the brink: Famine looms as crisis deepens

The World Food Program's chief economist, Arif Husain, points out that Gaza meets at least one of the criteria for famine.

Israeli ministers’ shocking call for mass expulsion: Gaza faces threat of...

Ben-Gvir's statements have brought attention to the plight of the area's population, severely affected by a three-month bombing campaign that has displaced approximately 90 percent of the territory’s residents.

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EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...

Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
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The first trillionaire – no big deal?

Multi-billionaires are bad enough; a trillionaire is a magnitude worse
A polling place on election day. Photo: Tony Webster

NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls

The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, which serves Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Sabrina Dalton, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court rules the constitution guarantees no right to clean water

A dissenting judge compared the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis to Flint's
A satellite view of Tehran, Iran. Photo: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Trump says he is in ‘deciding mode’ on destroying Iran

The Pentagon's own death count is undercounting US troops killed in the seven-month war, the Washington Post has reported.