Human Rights

The most dangerous forces in the industrialized world are people who are just doing their jobs - the little chores that make vast, complicated systems of exploitation and death …

Stu00e9phane Hessel (b. 1917), the French diplomat, ambassador, writer, resistance fighter and human rights advocate, wrote a 32-page essay published as a polemic that recalled the values he had …

In Chicago, nearly 80 African-American women die of breast cancer every year because of racial differences in access to healthcare, a new study suggests, the worst number of any …

Alyona talks to Jason Leopold, lead investigative reporter for Truthout.org about what the FOIA exposed.

Haitian grassroots organizations and international allies are launching an urgent housing rights campaign calling for permanent housing solutions for the nearly 400,000 people who are still living in displacement …

Having risked his life marching for the right of all Americans to vote, Lewis reflects on the ongoing struggle for voting rights today, when 16 states have passed restrictive …

The office is so intent on extracting confessions that officials have rewarded polygraphers with cash bonuses.

The actual number of people swept up in the cell phone surveillance could be ten, twenty or thirty times higher than 1.3 million because many of the law enforcement …

Syria's 16-month conflict has so far claimed more than 15,000 lives.

People haven't lost their voice. They can't afford a voice.