Truthout
Human Rights
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Borderland Deaths of Migrants Quietly Reach Crisis Numbers
While most media attention has been focused on the surge of children fleeing Central American countries for the United States, the immigrant death toll on the US-Mexico border has …
Arizona Inmate Takes Two Hours to Die in Botched Execution Using Experimental Two-Drug Cocktail
The state of Arizona has taken one hour and 57 minutes to kill a prisoner in a botched execution, which was carried out using the same combination of drugs …
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Hillary Clinton’s Real Scandal Is Honduras, Not Benghazi
Her Central American foreign policy blunder ought to darken her presidential prospects.
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Attorney General Declares POWs “Non-Persons”
The men held outside the law by the US at Guantu00e1namo Bay have been called “non-persons” by the US attorney general.
Poland “Facilitated” CIA Torture in European Secret Prison, Court Rules
The European Court of Human Rights has today ruled that the Polish government was not only aware of but actively assisted the CIA's European black site program.
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India’s Great Invisible Workforce
A whopping 160 million women in India, are confined to their homes rather than gainfully employed in the formal job sector.
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Running for Their Lives: The Child Migrant Crisis
US policies stoked the gang violence Central American kids are fleeing.
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“Mad Men” and the Triumph of the Insubstantial
The TV show “Mad Men” captures a moment when we began, slowly, to shift from substance to image, anticipating a laptop capitalism of the 21st century.
Statement by Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The situation in the occupied Gaza Strip is critical for the civilians living there and requires urgent attention.
An Open Letter for the People in Gaza
Leading doctors and scientists denounce Gaza violence.