Human Rights

Raul Ochoa tells Truthout why he threw himself under a Border Patrol truck to stop an arrest.

While women have made great strides across the globe and right here in the United States, there is still a tremendous amount of work to be done.

“America is a racist country,” Mychal Denzel Smith wrote earlier this month in an articleat the Nation. Smith called on whites to acknowledge racism's pervasiveness and eliminate it. I …

Naomi Klein speaks with artist, and indigenous academic Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about u201cextractivism.u201d

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.