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'Impeach Trump for This': Video Shows Final Hours of Teen's Horrible Death in US Immigration Detention Center

Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant, was seriously ill when immigration agents put him in a small South Texas holding cell with another sick boy on the afternoon of May 19. By the next morning, he was dead. (Photo: via Facebook)

'Make America 36th Out of 41 Developed Nations Again': Index of Developed Nations Puts US Near Bottom

Jon Queally, staff writer

President Donald Trump holds up a chart during a rally in Palm City Beach, Florida on May 9, 2019. (Photo: AP)

Meanwhile, the democratic-socialist Nordic countries of Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden enjoy the top spots in detailed survey of OECD nations.

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'People Here Will Start Dying': Dire Warnings as Stranded Refugees Freeze in Hellish Conditions Near Bosnia-Croatia Border

Jon Queally, staff writer

Migrants queue to receive aid distributed by Turkish Red Crescent at the camp 'Vucjak' near Bihac in Bosnia and Herzegovina on November 21, 2019. More than 700 irregular migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and other countries continue their lives in makeshift tents, located 15 kilometers from the Croatian border. Turkish Red Crescent distributed sweaters, blankets, sleeping-bags, toothpastes and towels. (Photo: Kayhan Gul/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The conditions of the refugee camp are being decried as "not for human beings"...

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Consulting Giant McKinsey Suggested "Detention Savings Opportunities" That Even ICE Staff Viewed as Too Harsh on Immigrants

Ian MacDougall, ProPublica

Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against migrant detention facilities on July 2, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

How McKinsey helped the Trump Administration detain and deport immigrants.

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Brown University Committee Votes in Favor of Divesting From Companies Complicit in Human Rights Abuses in Palestine

Iraqi Prime Minister to Step Down as Human Rights Defenders Condemn Security Forces' Attacks on Anti-Government Protesters

Women during a protest on the commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in Nantes, France, on November 25, 2019. (Photo: Estelle Ruiz/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Global Demonstrations Demand 'Concrete, Practical Action' to End Violence Against Women

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

So-Called 'Army Built to Fight Medicare for All,' Says Healthcare Expert, Really 'Just Hired Guns Hired by Corporate Stooges'

At a Japanese American-led direct action Monday, immigrant rights activists attempted to confront CEO Jenni Nakamoto over her company's contract with ICE, which they say represents a particular affront to human rights given her family's history at internment camps during World War II.

Activists Confront CEO's "Disgusting" Use of Family's History at WWII Incarceration Camps to Justify Propping Up ICE's Migrant Detention

Julian Assange supporters demonstrate outside of the Westminster Magistrates Court on November 18, 2019 in London, England. (Photo: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Warning Julian Assange 'Could Die in Prison', 60+ Doctors Demand Immediate Medical Attention for WikiLeaks Founder

Two people point to a Facebook news stream

Unprecedented 'Architecture of Surveillance' Created by Facebook and Google Poses Grave Human Rights Threat: Report

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)

Omar's $1.2 Trillion 'Homes for All Act' Heralded as Ambitious Addition to Green New Deal Framework

Attempt to 'Criminalize Basic Human Kindness' Fails as Activist Scott Warren Found Not Guilty on All Charges

'We Don't Believe in Locking Up Children. Do You?' Amnesty Billboards Condemn Trump's Mass Detention of Migrant Kids

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Tortured by CIA and Detained at Gitmo Without Trial, Ahmed Rabbani Gives Haunting Review of 'The Report'—a New Film He'll Likely Never See

A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.

Trump's Child Separation Policy "Absolutely" Violated International Law Says UN Expert

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Center for International Environmental Law

New Report Confirms: Human Rights Are Integral to Climate Action

Jewish Voice for Peace

Brown University Committee Votes to Divest from Companies "Facilitating Human Rights Violations in Palestine"...

Earthjustice

Hundreds of Documents Released Detailing Plans to Build Migrant Detention Facilities at Contaminated Fort Bliss Site

Amnesty International - USA

Billboards for World Children’s Day Call for Freedom for Detained Children in the U.S.

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Federal Court Blocks Trump Asylum Ban from Being Applied to Thousands of Asylum Seekers

Jewish Voice for Peace

140+ Palestinian Groups Urge Boycott of Airbnb Funds, Launch Twitter Storm

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Clive Stafford Smith

Everyone Should Watch The Report. Take It From a Guantánamo Bay Lawyer

John Feffer

Inside the Battle for Another World

Michael Felsen

Deporting Workers Makes America Less Safe

Coalition of Climate Justice Movements

COP25, Social Movements and Climate Justice

Michelle Bachelet

Hong Kong's Leaders Have Only One Way Out of the Protest Crisis

Nicolas J S Davies

Iraqis Rise Up Against 16 Years of "Made in the USA" Corruption

Tara Tabassi, Mariam Iskajyan

On This Day of Thanks and Mourning, a Call to Demilitarize the US Border

Megan Giovannetti

How the International Media Greenlights Israeli Aggression Toward Palestine

Maggie Mills

I Have Multiple Sclerosis. Here's Why I Am Fighting for Medicare for All

Alison Bodine

Chile Despertó! Chile Has Woken Up! The Rising Fight Against Neo-Liberalism in Chile