Human Rights

A perfect alignment of advantageous factors enabled opponents of capital punishment to place its abolition on the ballot for the first time in California.

Accompanying the lawsuit is an aggressive campaign to spread awareness about the consequences of the NDAA.

Ramzy Baroud discusses how, in the face of war, it is the children who face the most painful loss.

An interview with Hamja Ahsan and Aviva Stahl discussing the extreme importance of the upcoming Grand Chamber ruling for the six appellants fighting their extradition.

When we allow governments to forfeit our civil rights to protect

Baher Azmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights: International humanitarian law trumps extradition treaties.

Britain is refusing to give Julian Assange of WikiLeaks safe passage out of the country even though Ecuador has granted him political asylum.

In today's On the News segment: Ohio Republicans admit eliminating weekend voting would make it harder for some African-Americans to make it to the polls; BP is looking for …

“The US administration's war on whistle-blowers must end.”

He was already telling me about the very important book — with that smug look I know so well in a man holding forth, eyes fixed on the fuzzy …