Human Rights

The latest top-secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal the National Security Agency and its British counterpart, the the Government Communications Headquarters may have peered into the lives of …

“All Men are created equal” conjures up feelings of patriotic zeal, a sense of commonality within the citizenry of the country, and a belief that ours was a country …

A criminal intelligence analyst for the Army infiltrated activists in Olympia to gather intelligence, which he shared with police, the FBI and a fusion centeru00a0in Washington.

Finally! Our state legislatures are getting down to governing the way our Constitution meant for us to be governedu2026using Biblical and Christian beliefs.

Chris Hedges: Moral courage is always defined by the state as treason.

One Russian prisoner, released from Guantanamo Bay for lack of any evidence, remains imprisoned in Russia, an expedient scapegoat for dubious antiterrorism policies, says Aisha Maniar.

How would we calculate the value of what we today would call the intellectual property - in medicine and other fields - generated by slavery's suffering?

Michael Ratner: Documents show the US engaged in major attacks against journalists, publishers, and whistleblowers, as a UK court upholds the legality of David Miranda's detention at Heathrow airport.

British lawyers' complaint at the World Court accuses NATO members of war crimes by helping facilitate U.S. strikes.

Undocumented and unafraid young people have been the engine behind immigrant rights organizing in recent years. After securing a win with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, they must plot …