Human Rights

As the Maryland General Assembly completed its work on the state budget bill, legislators inserted language that weakly condemns the American Studies Association (ASA) decision to boycott Israeli academic …

A group of families and activists fight to reunite Jaime Vasquez and Ardani Rosales with their families.

Rwanda is holding commemorations for the 20th anniversary of the genocide in which 800,000 people were killed.

Poet, novelist, social activist, and important figure in the women's liberation movement, Marge Piercy records a moving account of her own illegal abortion, and speaks to the importance of …

The ruling means that the woman whose drug use had her facing a possible life term can at most be charged with manslaughter in the death of her stillborn …

Ibrahim was no threat to anyone, innocent of everything, and ended up on a no-fly list only due to a government mistake.

At some point you have to ask, is this a “sincerely held religious belief?” Or is it just a cynical political ploy?

In the face of these dehumanizing and marginalizing processes, Dutch Moroccan youth have grown restless with the current system.

A U.S. District judge has ruled that Republican legislators in North Carolina must provide documents revealing their work in passing and implementing what has become known as a voter …

A UN Human Rights Committee excoriates the US civil and political rights record, enumerating 25 lapses - including torture, drone attacks, police violence, racialized justice, Guantanamo, criminalization of homelessness …