Human Rights

Women fleeing domestic violence and fearing for their lives can now legally seek asylum in the United States.

Rasmea Odeh was arrested and tortured by the Israel Defense Forces in 1969 when she was 22 years old. Today, Odah is on trial in the United States and …

On Saturday, August 30, more than 6,000 people took to the streets of Berlin, Germany to protest against intelligence agencies' mass surveillance.

Rarely, if ever, are Black women interviewed in the neighborhoods where they live and asked about a policy's impact on their lives.

"We have become less and less aware of the changed environment in which disposing of lives takes place and the forms that disposability takes, so that we no longer …

The NSA has built a search engine with “Google-like” capacities with the sole purpose of sharing data about you with law enforcement agencies like the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration …

A new immigrant detention center for children and families is in a place where children once went to school amid a bleak nuclear landscape.

The British government is being asked to reopen an investigation into BT, after new evidence appeared to link the company to illegal US drone strikes and the mass government …

The background of a key negotiator in the battle over a Senate report on the CIA's use of torture has sparked concerns about the Obama administration's objectivity in handling …

This book is not an easy summer read.