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Leaked Memo Reveals Trump Administration's "Immoral" Plan to "Traumatize" Migrant Children

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D.-Ore.)

'We Have Monsters Leading America': Trump's DHS Locked Up More Children Than Previously Known

Julia Conley, staff writer

"This policy was a cruel disaster from the start. This report reaffirms that the government never had a clear picture of how many children it ripped from their parents."

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With Facial Recognition Technology at 'Crossroads,' 90 Groups Urge Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Not to Collude With Big Brother

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Werner Vogels, chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon

"History has clearly taught us that the government will exploit technologies...

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As Corporate Power Threatens Americans' Right to Water, Groups Offer UN Body List of Issues to Raise With US

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A demonstrator wears a t-shirt declaring "Water is a human right"

"Civil and political rights must encompass the human right to water, which is...

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President Donald Trump listens to Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service, during a Women in Healthcare panel in the Roosevelt Room at the White House March 22, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

'Make No Mistake. People Will Die': Backlash Against 'Relentless War on Medicaid' Waged by Trump

'Not a Good Answer': Privacy Advocates Reject Democratic Proposal for 'Technological Wall' With Expanded Border Surveillance

First-Ever Indigenous Peoples March Will Fight Against Injustices Faced Across the Globe

'Quietly and Unnoticed,' Trump Administration Won't Cooperate with UN Investigators on Human Rights Violations in US

After Netflix Pulls Episode at Saudi Request, Comic Hasan Minhaj Urges Donations for Suffering Yemen

Prosecutors Mull 'Assault' Charges After Videos Show Children Being Dragged and Hit at Arizona Immigration Detention Center

Food aid in Yemen

Food Aid to Yemen 'Snatched From the Starving' by US-Backed Saudi Allies

protests in Brazil

Ahead of Bolsonaro's Inauguration in Brazil, Groups Vow to Fight 'Hateful Rhetoric and Acts of Violence'

Investigation Finds at Least $800M in Taxpayer Money Went to Funding For-Profit Immigrant Prisons in 2018

As CBP Orders Medical Checks for Minors in US Custody After Two Deaths, Critics Ask: 'Why Are They Jailing Children' In the First Place?

Activists project text and a picture of Jakelin Caal onto the home of CBP's Commissioner Kevin McAleenan in Virginia. (Photo: CREDO Action/Screenshot)

Denouncing 7-Year-Old's Death, UN Rights Expert Demands US Halt Child Detentions

'Shame on this President:' With Shutdown, Trump Cuts Off Funds for 'Vital Services and Protections' for Women Who Face Abuse

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Witness Against Torture

Witness Against Torture Activists Hold Sit-In at Senator Mitch McConnell’s Office

Amnesty International - USA

17 Years Later, Guantanamo Prison Remains a Threat to Human Rights

Amnesty International - USA

Failure to Raise Human Rights During Pompeo Visit to Gulf Could Risk Increased Abuses

Physicians for Human Rights

U.S. Immigration Policy Contributes to Another Child Death

National Nurses United

Nurses Condemn Policy that Led to Deaths of Children from Families Seeking Asylum

Survival International

Letters Implicate WWF in Illegal Land Grab and Human Rights Abuses

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Phyllis Bennis

United Nations Inaction and the Gaza Crisis: Ten Years ago and Today

Ramzy Baroud

When Bolsonaro and Netanyahu Are ‘Brothers’: Why Brazil Should Shun the Israeli Model

Belén Fernández

'Barbed Wire-Plus': Borders Know No Love

Jesse Jackson

Donald Trump’s Border Wall Demand Is Dressed Up With More Lies About Immigrants

Jackie Smith, Caitlin Schroering

Global Peasant Declaration Represents Huge Advance for Human Rights

Christopher Brauchli

Holiday Detention

Kerri Kennedy

This Holiday Season, I’m Standing With Migrants

Vijay Prashad

Imagine a World Without War, Where Migrants Are Welcomed, Where Women Are Not Targets

James Zogby

Turning a Corner in Public Opinion Toward Israeli Occupation

Michelle Chen

Trump's Caravan Problem Isn't Which People Are Coming, But What Kind of Country America Will Choose to Be

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