Tag: human rights
Remembering Stonewall: On 50th anniversary, leaders of uprising look back on...
Fifty years ago today, just after midnight, at 1:30 in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York City police officers raided...
Fund head start, not internment camps
I came to this country from Mexico as a small child because my mother was escaping poverty and wanted to give my...
20 ways you can help immigrants now
Immigrant children are dying in federal custody. Children in detention are being denied basic supplies like soap and blankets—and the Trump administration says...
Trump admin moves 100 migrant kids back to “child jail” despite...
The Department of Homeland Security has moved 100 migrant children back to a Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, where infants and...
“I thought we were going to be executed”: Police held family...
An African-American family is suing the city of Phoenix, Arizona, after police held them at gunpoint because their 4-year-old daughter had allegedly...
Juneteenth 2019: The US must repair historic and current racism
On this Juneteenth, we must confront the impacts of racism dating back to the founding of the United States with the slave...
The war on women: The view from China
Today, however, rather than seeing women as a key driver of economic advancement, China’s leaders have been cracking down on the feminist movement. Leta Hong Fincher, a scholar on women in China, explains why.
The Various Shades of Black… and Green
The hit film of 2018 was Peter Farrelly's Green Book. The film takes place in 1962, and was based on a true story...
Leaked OPCW report raises new questions about 2018 chemical attack in...
A newly leaked internal document from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reveals there were conflicting views within the organization as to what happened.
How ICE is using solitary confinement to punish asylum seekers, including...
The United Nations special rapporteur on torture says solitary confinement should only be used in exceptional circumstances, and defines extended use of solitary as “inhuman and degrading treatment.”
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Spain blocks US war operations in Iran and calls conflict “profoundly illegal”
Madrid closes airspace and denies military base access, widening tensions with Washington as legal experts cite violations of the UN charter
Trump, complicity in genocide, started a terrible war; he must be removed NOW.
When will this march into Trump authoritarianism be stopped by some powerful, fearless leader?
Nuke power equals Trump profits
Amidst his escalating attacks on renewable energy and atomic safety, the Trump family’s investments in nuclear fusion live under a bad cloud that threatens us all.
Trump’s Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel giants as global...
Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.
How Democrats helped clear Trump’s path back to power
The Democratic Party has chosen again and again to abandon working people and cling to corporate power, militarism, and a feckless, out-of-touch leadership class, Norman Solomon of RootsAction says. And we’re all paying the price.