Human Rights

Judges uphold use of Alien Tort Statute post-Kiobel.

The Zapatista "struggle is our struggle, everywhere, in every city, in every country of the world. We are in a very difficult moment, in a terrible moment of humankind, …

Revelations by Edward Snowden about US surveillance continue to shake Germany more than one year after he came forward as an National Security Agency whistleblower.

It is apparent that in the centuries that have since passed, the indigenous peoples of the Andes such as those in Andahuaylillas were not necessarily persuaded towards what was …

Friday morning the Artesia Detention Centre in New Mexico began housing families, mostly women with children, with plans to deport them within two weeks.

Military repression in Honduras is a direct legacy of U.S. meddling in the country.

Undocumented college students benefit temporarily from a new program protecting them from deportation, but a more permanent solution is needed.

The furor about the birth control mandate and the Hobby Lobby case was always about the fact that the issue at stake was a woman's right to control her …

The New York City Council has approved the use of municipal identification cards that will provide its nearly half a million undocumented residents with a way to prove their …

Women represent 72 percent of all workers in tipped-wage jobs - those with a federal minimum wage of just $2.13 an hour.