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Human Rights

Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib Lead Call for UN Probe Into Alleged DHS Human Rights Abuses

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) speaks as Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hold a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 15, 2019. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinian and Peace Leaders Condemn Trump's Israel-Sudan Normalization Deal as 'Stab in the Back'

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office after announcing an agreement between the U.S., Israel, and Sudan to normalize relations between Jerusalem and Khartoum. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Critics say the U.S.-brokered agreement normalizes not only relations between the former foes, but also Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people.

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10 Years After Iraq War Logs, It's Impunity for War Criminals, War on Whistleblowers

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

U.S. troops search an Iraqi family near Baquba on October 5, 2007. (Photo: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning have both...

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Saudi Arabia, Belarus Among Countries Joining US-Led Coalition Claiming Women Have 'No International Right to Abortion'

Julia Conley, staff writer

"This administration doesn't seem content to stop until it has fully trampled...

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Aerial view of the Covid-19 emergency care facility erected at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Blasting 'Deliberate Indifference' to Inmate Health, California Court Orders San Quentin Prison to Reduce Population by Half

Sudanese human rights demonstrators in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 4, 2019. (Photo: Ken Jack/Getty Images)

Report Details How Trump Downplays, Ignores Grave Human Rights Violations Around the World

Drug Enforcement Administration police are seen as demonstrators marched to Freedom Plaza from Capitol Hill to honor George Floyd and victims of racial injustice on Saturday, June 6, 2020.

DEA's "Project Safeguard" Latest Salvo in Failed US War on Drugs

Michael Carvajal, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, testifies under oath before the House Judiciary Committee on June 2, 2020. (Photo: Tom Williams/Getty Images)

ACLU Sues Trump Admin. to Obtain Key Records on 'Dishonest and Incompetent' Federal Handling of Coronavirus Pandemic in Prisons

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. The asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents before being sent to a processing center for possible separation. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

'Just Babies at the Time': ACLU Says It Can't Find Parents of Over 500 Children Separated From Families by Trump

Participants in the latest Women's March took to the streets of New York City on Saturday, October 17, 2020 to denounce President Donald Trump, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, and the Republican Party's conservative agenda. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

'We've Had Enough': Women-Led Marches and Rallies in US Cities Nationwide Call for Trump's Ouster and GOP Defeat

A twelve year-old works in a silver cooking pot factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh during the coronavirus crisis, which has led to a resurgence of child labor amid worsening economic deprivation and educational precarity. (Photo: Md Manik/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Resurgence of Child Labor Amid Global Pandemic Offered as Proof That 'Capitalism Is Monstrous'

Indonesian Defense Minister and former Kopassus general Prabowo Subianto during a visit to Natuna air base on February 5, 2020. (Photo: Muhammad Fahmi Dolli/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)

Critics Call Upcoming Pentagon Visit by Indonesian Defense Minister—Accused of Horrific Atrocities—a 'Human Rights Catastrophe'

Amazon workers in Germany are striking Tuesday and Wednesday for better pay, safer working conditions, and the right to organize free from the e-commerce company's pervasive surveillance and harassment. (Photo: Twitter screengrab).

Amazon Workers in Germany Strike on Prime Day for Better Pay and Right to Organize 'Without Big Brother Watching'

Nurses hold signs at a Vigil for Nurses Who've Died From Covid-19 at the U.S. Capital on July 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C. They gathered at the Capitol demanding that the U.S. Senate pass the HEROES Act, which would provide much needed personal protective equipment and regulatory protections for frontline workers. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Labor Unions and Green Groups Sue Trump Admin. for 'Failure to Protect Frontline Workers From Covid-19'

The U.S. Department of Labor building is pictured in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, April 2, 2020. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

US Labor Unions File UN Complaint Accusing Trump Administration of "Outrageous" Violations of Workers' Rights Amid Pandemic

Two officers and their supervisor at Oklahoma County Jail in Oklahoma City are facing charges of cruelty and conspiracy for allegedly torturing inmates with the popular children's song "Baby Shark." (Photo: Getty Images)

'On the Level of Guantánamo': Oklahoma Jail Guards Accused of Torturing Inmates With 'Baby Shark' Song

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350.org

350.Org Expresses Solidarity With Nigeria’s #Endsars Movement While Condemning the Injustices Being Meted on Nigerian Nationals

Amnesty International - USA

ICE Reactionary Billboards Inflame Hate

Accountable.US

An Open Letter to American Hotels

Amnesty International - USA

Image of Jamal Khashoggi Projected on the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C. and Other Locations on Second Anniversary of His Assassination

United Nations Human Rights - Special Procedures

UN Human Rights Expert Calls for Immediate End to Military Assaults on Rakhine Villages, Decries Mounting Death Toll of Children

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Appeals Court Rules GTMO Torture Victim Should Be Seen by Independent Medical Experts

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Silky Shah

Why America Still Needs to Abolish ICE

Edgar Villanueva

It's Past Time to Abolish Columbus Day and Establish Indigenous Peoples' Day in the United States

Katrina Burgess

Migrant Caravans Restart as Pandemic Deepens the Humanitarian Crisis at the US-Mexico Border

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies

Two Years After Khashoggi’s Brutal Murder, Why Is America Still an Accomplice to MBS's Crimes?

Brigitte Amiri, Meagan Burrows

Victory: After Three Years of Battling in Court, the Trump Administration Abandons its Policy of Banning Abortion for Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors

Laura Flanders

Mourn Justice Ginsburg and Fight to Close Irwin Detention Center

Ifoma Modibo Kambon

I Survived Covid-19 at Folsom State Prison

Juan Cole

Affirming Jim Crow, Israeli Parliament Votes Down Bill Guaranteeing Equality for Palestinian-Israelis

Nakiya Wakes

What the Flint Water Crisis Meant for My Family

Nora Barrows-Friedman

84 Percent of Canadians Want War Crimes Probe Into Israel