Human Rights

The forest has always been their home and their source of sustenance. Now, these women are tapping the sun that shines through it.

“March” tells the story of young African Americans who, like its author, rose up from the Jim Crow South to assert their human rights.

If Schneider Electric is approved, this would be the final vote before construction would continue on the DAC.

Corporations and private intelligance firms are spying on whistleblowers, activists and journalists, but is anything being done to hold them to account?

The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it would not hear Center for Constitutional Rights v. Obama, a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of people within the …

Ten years after the coup d'etat that ousted the democratically-elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti, political persecution and repression continue.

National Security's conflation of whistleblowing and terrorism, as evident in the latest Snowden revelations, is further evidence of danger to freedom of the press, says Julian Assange's lawyer.

Author Peter Dreier defends his inclusion of LBJ in book celebrating social justice heroes, outlining the president's nearly unrivaled number of public reforms.

Should they go or should they stay? That was a question millions of African Americans living in the South asked themselves in the 20th Century.

The NISVS survey and CDC report reach beyond mere numbers and is the first national study to ask questions designed to illuminate some of the context of victimization.