Tag: human rights

Here we highlight some of the rights challenges that captured the world’s attention this year, illustrating the struggle to secure human rights is far from over.

Today’s policy attacks on Native rights reproduce the same misunderstandings of race that the DNA industry is now so assiduously promoting.

“This Senate vote should mark the beginning of the end of American complicity in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.”

“It’s so disheartening. This was supposed to be a policy that ended.”

This column is just about one tiny example of the unfairness of this current corporate/capitalist system.

"All children deserve to be safe and protected, to live with their parents and their families, and to have their voices heard."

“The report confirms that the United States faces a crisis when it comes to the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, and the lack of accurate data and appropriate media coverage has played a crucial role in the epidemic.”

At least 20 active members of Migrant Justice have been arrested and detained by ICE.

For the first time, immigrants – all from diverse countries such as El Salvador, Nepal and Sudan – are coming together on the national stage to fight for their rights.

Direct service and solidarity are important, but there’s no “way out of this” without effective advocacy for sweeping systemic and policy change.