Human Rights

The prisoners, many of whom have been cleared for release, refused food when guards started to seize their personal items, such as books, family photos, letters and legal mail.

The US should head the UN human rights rapporteur's demand to release information about CIA programs under Bush.

One would think that that a certain troubled country seeking absolute security from the possibility of a terrorist attack - by trashing its constitution and giving its president the …

Democracy Now is broadcasting live from the Freedom to Connect conference, a national gathering to promote Internet freedom and universal connectivity.

Women produce 60 to 80 percent of all food, both as subsistence farmers and as agricultural wage laborers.

Brown faces, magic of northern New Mexico's landscapes and Indo-Hispano culture in movie, Bless Me, Ultima, charm Roberto Rodriguez.

Resistance fighter, deportee, diplomat and co-author of the Declaration of Human Rights Stu00e9phane Hessel died during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday at the age of 95 years.

A new poll found that when the voters didn't know which plan was whose, the policies that most voters preferred were those offered up by the Progressives Caucus in …

The House voted on Thursday to pass the Senate's bipartisan reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, in a big victory for President Obama and Democrats in Congress.

Jim Crow is alive and well — and he has mounted a new attack on the law Martin Luther King dreamed of: the Voting Rights Act. On February 27, …