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60 Human Rights Groups Implore UN to Deliver 'More Than Just Empty Words' to Victims of Haiti's Cholera Crisis

“My child was all that I had. He was the one who paid my rent, gave me money to do business, and he died.”(Photo: Orlando Barria/EPA)

'Shame on Him': 75 Democrats Decry Jeff Sessions' Inhumane Decision To Close Door on Asylum-Seeking Domestic Violence Victims

Common Dreams staff

"Violence against women, and particularly domestic violence, around the world is a violation of human rights and an issue of public health." (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

"It should be unthinkable to tell women asking for asylum to go back to the bloody and brutal circumstances that brought them to our shores.”

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At Historic Habeas Corpus Hearing, Guantanamo's 'Dangerous Experiment in Indefinite Detention' Challenged

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A Guantanamo protest

"The government says my detention is legal because of the indefinite war...

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Legal Scholars Warn ICE Agents That 'Just Following Orders' Won't Save Them

Julia Conley, staff writer

A new report finds that individual Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could be held personally liable for the suffering of families and children under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.

"While such employees may say they were 'just following orders,' their highest...

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A sign at a demonstration against the decision of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to close the Italian ports to the NGO ship with 629 migrants on board on June 11, 2018 in Rome, Italy.

'New Walled Order' for Migrants Worldwide as Governments Criminalize Compassion and Erect Barriers to Basic Services

Kerem Shalom

Intensifying 'Genocidal Policies of Collective Punishment,' Israel Shuts Down Gaza's Main Cargo Crossing

ICE agents

Demand Grows for Tech Giants Like Microsoft and Salesforce to Cancel Contracts With ICE and Border Patrol

Amid Chaos and Suffering of Family Separation, Senators Demand Answers on 2,300 Imprisoned Children

With 700+ Events Planned for Saturday, Nationwide Rallies Will Demand End to Trump's 'Zero-Humanity' Policy

Image via La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE)

With Human Rights Crisis Still Underway, Fast to End 'Zero Tolerance' Takes Aim at Trump's Cruelty

Here's the Story of How I Met Detained Minors on My Flight From Texas

Humanitarian organization Refugees International has given the Trump administration an overall F for how it's done on refugee protection.

On World Refugee Day, Trump Gets Big Fat "F" for Treatment of World's Displaced and Persecuted

migrant mother and child

"These Are Prisons for Babies": Forcibly Separated From Parents, Youngest Kids Sent to So-Called "Tender Age" Detention

Mass Mobilization Planned for June 30 to Protest Trump's Cruel Separation of Families

Cruel Separation of Families 'Rooted in the Racism' of Bannon, Miller, and Trump's Xenophobic Base

A Witness Against Torture protest at NYC City Hall on June 26, 2012. (Photo: Felton Davis/flickr/cc)

On Prison's 6,000th Day, Groups Demand Trump "Choose Justice Over Inhumanity" and #CloseGitmo

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Amnesty International - USA

100 Hate Crimes Allegedly Committed in the First Six Months of 2018, Reveals ‘Halt the Hate’ Website

Reprieve

Guantánamo Prisoners Challenge Indefinite Detention

Amnesty International - USA

Amnesty International Calls for the release of Toffiq al-Bihani and the closure of Guantanamo Bay

Amnesty International - USA

Turkey: Conviction of Six Zaman Journalists “Sends Further Shock Through an Already Devastated Media Landscape”

Amnesty International - USA

Syrian Refugees Must Not Be Abandoned by Jordan

Stop the War Coalition

Celebrities & Campaigners to Hand in Letter to the Prime Minister Over Assault on Yemeni Port of Hodeidah

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