Truthout
Human Rights
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We Can’t Afford Immigrants Not Being Insured
The Affordable Care Act should be expanded to cover undocumented immigrants, but that's only the next step.
National Guard Deployed as Baltimore Erupts After Years of Police Violence, Economic Neglect
Baltimore public schools are closed, and a weeklong curfew is in effect.
Liberian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee: How a Sex Strike Propelled Men to Refuse War
Gbowee notes the idea for the strike came from a Muslim woman and was inspired in part by the civil rights movement in the United States.
The Science Fiction of Freddie Gray
Imagine that Freddie Gray never had to live in a city that is struggling to breathe under layers and layers of structural violence.
Saving Migrant Lives Is Imperative But What Next? UN Human Rights Expert Ask EU Leaders
UN independent human rights experts on migrants and trafficking in persons react to the announcement made at the end of the emergency European Union summit on migrants yesterday.
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Suicide on the Great Sioux Nation
The Lakota Nation is coming together to deal with historical trauma, and find strength and hope for their youth.
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PETA’s Cruel and Unusual Crush
The animal rights group shouldn't ladle praise on Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a man who cages people for a living.
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Racial Inequality and the Economics of Social Justice
Markers of economic and social inequality abound, so it should come as no surprise that US institutions are ripe with racial injustice.
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“Whiteness Fairy“
Australia Again Wages War on Its Own People
The Australian government plans to evict Aboriginal people from their homelands.