Skip to main content

Human Rights

ACLU Sues Kansas Over 'Unconstitutional' Law Barring Boycott of Israel

bds protest

Aung San Suu Kyi: A Leader in Denial?

Tharanga Yakupitiyage, IPS News

Speech given by political leader of Myanmar "was disingenuous at best and dishonest at worst," said one human rights advocate

Read More

Gun Stocks Surge as Trump Pushes to Ease Export Regulations for Assault Weapons

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

man shoots gun

Human rights expert warns against flooding "world with the American disease" of...

Read More

New Research Reveals There Are More Than 40 Million Slaves Worldwide

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

laborer

Reports released during the UN General Assembly meetings suggest global leaders...

Read More

Oxfam Has Made Refugees Welcome... at Trump's Childhood Home

Many families in the Gaza Strip are living with no electricity or only a couple of hours of power per day, making conditions stifling at home. Households also lack clean drinking water and fresh food because of poor infrastructure and the energy crisis.

Human Rights Group Calls Conditions in Gaza 'Unlivable' for One Million Children

refugees in Bangladesh

More Than 120,000 of 'World's Most Persecuted People' Flee Violence in Myanmar

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein

UN Human Rights Chief Questions If Trump Fomenting Violence Against Journalists

The report came as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in Manila meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who bragged to a state news agency that the U.S. and Australia have "considerably toned down" their criticism of his human rights record.

Trump Embraces Duterte as Endless US War Expands in Philippines

Three Years After Gruesome Execution, Ohio Set to Resume State-Sanctioned Killing

Destroying Mosul to Save It: Possible US-Backed War Crimes in Iraq Exposed

"What to the Slave is 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech

Justice for Omar Khadr: Child Detainee to Receive Apology, at Least $10 Million From Canada

Top U.N. Human Rights Official Denounces Trump's Pro-Torture Rhetoric

UN Expert Touts Universal Basic Income as 'Bold and Imaginative Solution' to Poverty

Trump "Simply Doesn't Care": Six Members of HIV/AIDS Advisory Panel Resign

Newswire

The International Rescue Committee

Report Reveals Dire Needs of Rohingya Refugees

Peace Action

Peace Action Congratulates ICAN for Nobel Peace Prize; US Must Work Towards Nuclear Disarmament

The International Rescue Committee

As 60 Rohingya Refugees Reported to Have Drowned, IRC Raises New Humanitarian Concerns

The International Rescue Committee

IRC Appalled By Reports of an “Assimilation” Test For Vulnerable Refugees

Above Ground

Lawmakers, Experts Examine Path Forward For Corporate Accountability on Human Rights

Peace Action

Peace Action: Resolution Introduced to Force a Vote on U.S. Role in Yemen War

Sign-up for Newsletter

Views

Maha Hilal

Trump Plans to Make It Easier to Kill Civilians with Drones. Sadly, We Can Thank Obama for That.

Karen Greenberg

Gitmo's Living Legacy in the Trump Era

Khalid Qassim

I am in Guantánamo Bay. The US Government is Starving Me to Death

Sayra Lozano

I’m a ‘Dreamer.’ If Someone Must Be Punished, Let It Be Me.

Pierre Tristam

Pride In “Our Country”? Count Me Out

Medea Benjamin

From a Concert in Las Vegas to a Funeral in Yemen, We Must Stop Mass Murder

Wenonah Hauter

Stand with Puerto Rico—Not the Banks

Medea Benjamin

Saudi Women May Soon Be Behind the Wheel, But Still Not in the Drivers’ Seat

Robert Borosage

GOP Health Repeal Is an Immoral Affront to the American People

Afrah Nasser

Yemen Needs United Nations, Not the United Nations

Donate to Common Dreams

Join the resistance!