Tag: human rights

"The United States has everything to do with the creation of the monsters that are driving the refugees up to our border."

Activists gathered in Washington D.C. to protest the ruling and stand up to the blatant anti-Muslim discrimination, racism, and xenophobia that this ban perpetuates.

Each one of us has an important choice. We can acknowledge the painful truth that we inflict enormous violence on our children and respond powerfully to that truth. Or we can keep deluding ourselves and continue to observe, powerlessly, as the violence in our world proliferates until human beings are extinct.

"We’ve invited the people to speak for themselves, because I think it’s time for a revolution."

The only thing I am sure of is that Nicaragua always does better when the United States is looking elsewhere.

"We are sick, we are homeless, we are separated from our families, and we will keep coming back until everyone has housing, voting rights, clean water, peace, and justice!"

Friends and family are demanding to know why he was deported to Eritrea, despite his fears that he would be tortured or even killed there.

Progress! Meaning a national commitment to advance the economic, political and social circumstances of the American majority of workday families and poor people.

U.S. withdraws from Human Rights Council, Canada legalizes recreational marijuana, first ladies unite against family separation at the border, and more.

The war on refugees claimed another victim on May 25.