Human Rights

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the declassification of top secret studies, done over a period of 60 years, in which the US conducted 2,000 radiation experiments on …

Proponents worry the legislation will be doomed the way the 9/11 attacks spoiled efforts to overhaul immigration laws in 2001.

Humanitarian agency Church World Service President and CEO the Rev. John McCullough called on God to "grant us the political and moral courage to truly love and embrace one …

In early April the Associated Press announced that it would no longer use the word “illegal” when referring to undocumented immigrants. The decision has been hailed by immigrant rights …

Last night, a federal judge rejected the State of California's attempt to dismiss a class action lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California's notorious Pelican Bay prison. The case …

Internet freedom is an illusion in the US, writes ‘War for the Web’ director Michael Wooldridge, as long as control of its infrastructure and platforms are in the hands …

Today, as a federal judge in Washington heard arguments related to the court's ability to intervene in the growing hunger strike at Guantanamo and, among other requests, order the …

Across California on April 10, activists demonstrated for immigration reform and articulated a sharply different version from any currently obtaining in the US Congress of what that reform entails.

Imagine if Facebook, Google and Twitter built a privacy-killing surveillance machine to help the federal government spy on us. If Congress passes the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act …

Ladies and Gentlemen, let me tell you of monsters and monstrous wrongs. And let me tell you what these bloody monsters thrive on. I founded the civil rights fighting …