Human Rights

How the NYPD used excessive force, arrested reporters, and broke international law in their handling of Occupy.

Internal emails reveal DHS planned to challenge purported inaccuracies in a news story on surveillance of Occupy, but the inaccuracies appear to be confined to the agency's own documents.

Human rights delegation to Egypt concludes any future support to the Egyptian government must meet the people's real needs, not promote the interests of foreign and local elites.

On every military base in Iraq and Afghanistan exists an economy sustained by immigrant workers. For transportation, construction, food services, security and more, the United States government relies on …

Orange County news editor points out cops' cavalier attitude, along with the shooting itself, contributed to community outrage after Manuel Diaz's death.

The Los Angeles area is notorious for the plethora of cars that clog its roads and highways. Less known, however, are the rampant labor violations prevalent in LAu2019s carwash …

The widespread killings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma u2013 or Myanmar - have received only passing and dispassionate coverage in most media. What they actually warrant is widespread outrage …

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 …