Human Rights

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 …

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.