Human Rights

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, …

A central provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 may be in peril.

The international community - including the US - must stand on the side of justice and the Haitian people.

Allen Ruff: Kazakhstan's brutal repression of workers and opposition ignored as it tries to play broker in the stand off between the US and Iran.

This evening I want to talk about Bigger Thomas. I'm teaching a course this semester entitled “Race and Existence,” in which I include the work of the ingenious African …