Human Rights

How can there be so many billionaires so self-absorbed in their greed that they cannot see the suffering that surrounds them?

William Rivers Pitt: I see the butcher's bill and know this is wrong. Something has gone sideways.

Before the next war and the next massacre, consider the startling costs of the United States' seemingly endless (and fruitless) battle with “evil.”

The co-directors of “In the Image” discuss their film and how Palestinian women have taken the lead in documenting injustices.

We will never find our way to a just and caring society by remaining in the conceptual gulag of “terrorism.”

Part of systems change is the recognition of the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Here is a condensed version of President Obama's speech from the Oval Office on Sunday night, unofficially translated into plain English.

Indigenous people from around the world took to Paris to defend their rights and the environment.

Various reports establish grounds for an International Criminal Court investigation into allegations of Israeli war crimes.

With winter coming, border, customs and immigration officials in many countries are making it harder for refugees to find relief, or it to find them.