Human Rights

Today, lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal judge to reject California's attempt to dismiss a class action lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California …

Universities, central banks, and even theaters in the country are fast being brought under the power of the ruling Fidesz party.

Fifty-one attorneys wrote Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to intervene in ‘a serious threat to the health and life of detainees.’

The United States ranks 66th out of 98 countries in access to and affordability of civil legal services.

A secrecy expert says stricter polygraph procedures will impoverish understanding of intelligence matters.

John Brennan's past may not be so easily forgotten in a world looking for accountability.

Protest organized by families broken by immigration deportations.

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 …