Human Rights

Beyond relying on employers' voluntary efforts, health and labor advocates urge stronger mandates for protections.

Under pressure, Russia's civil society activists are fleeing.

One of the last unspoiled regions in Texas faces construction of a pipeline wider than Keystone to supply Mexico with US fracked gas.

There's still time for the Obama administration to prosecute US human rights abusers.

Over a century after the transatlantic slave trade ended, we are still faced with the pervasiveness of the drowning Black body.

Hawaiian activists traveled to Syngenta's headquarters in Switzerland to demand that the agrichemical giant stop spraying poisons on their island.

The two-state solution has been declared dead too many times to count, but have we turned a corner?

The Department of Veterans Affairs settled a lawsuit brought by 10 homeless veterans in LA.

The Court of Appeals struck down the US metadata collection program, but left it to Congress to come up with a legal fix.

This humanitarian crisis is the direct result of the United States and NATO decision to effect regime change in Libya in 2011.