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![A little boy holds a Palestinian flag while on someone's shoulders at a rally](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0404-palestine-rally-400x300.jpg)
US Charitable Donations Are Funding Displacement of Palestinians
Facing Israeli state violence, Palestinians refuse to concede their land and continue to organize against colonization.
![Ketanji Brown Jackson: I Was Standing Up for the Constitution by Representing Guantánamo Prisoners STORYMARCH 23, 2022Watch Full Show](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/DN-SEG1-gitmo-1-400x300.jpg)
GOP Attacks Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Work Defending Guantánamo Prisonsers
Jackson was one of hundreds of legal professionals in a project that exposed the lies and brutality at Guantánamo.
![Six disabled people of color smile and pose in front of a concrete wall. Five people stand in the back, with the Black woman in the center holding up a chalkboard sign reading 'disabled and here.' A South Asian person in a wheelchair sits in front.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0321-disabled-and-here-400x300.jpg)
Disability Doesn’t Make Us Less Worthy of Life. COVID Policy Assumes It Does.
As we hope for a world a little less dominated by COVID, we must recognize that risk will not be the same for everyone.
![A young boy from Ukraine holds a pink teddy bear after crossing over a border point with his family in Kroscienko, in southeast Poland on March 19, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0322-ukraine-child-400x300.jpg)
Ukraine’s Children Are Vulnerable to Shady Adoption Schemes
A far right Christian pastor just showed up in Poland with 63 Ukrainian kids. That may be just the beginning.
![Ukrainian displaced civilians wait in the train station as they flee from the war in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 15, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/GettyImages-1239262225-400x300.jpg)
Calling Ukraine “Relatively Civilized” Invokes a Racist Ranking of Europeanness
We must remember that terms such as “civilized” and “European” are nothing but a colonial fantasy.
![Night falls on the Occupy-style protest for unhoused rights in Boise, Idaho.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0317-boise-encampment-1-400x300.jpg)
Occupy-Style Protest in Boise Highlights Brutal Conditions Faced by the Unhoused
Nearly five years after an appeals court constrained Boise’s efforts to criminalize homelessness, loopholes abound.
![Protester for Julian Assange holds up sign](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/GettyImages-1237952858_resized-400x300.jpg)
Extradition Looms for Assange After UK Supreme Court Refuses to Hear His Appeal
Press freedom and human rights groups and Julian Assange’s fiancée have all condemned the latest barrier to his freedom.
![A Yemeni malnourished girl gets treatment at the malnutrition fighting department at Al-Sabeen hospital on August 10, 2021, in Sana'a, Yemen.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0314-yemen-malnourished-400x300.jpg)
Famine in Yemen Could Increase Fivefold Without Immediate Action, UN Warns
Substantial aid is needed to avert the worst effects of the food crisis, according to multiple UN agencies.
![Rio de Janeiro's councillor and activist Marielle Franco is remembered during a demonstration to mark International Women's Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on March 8, 2019.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0308-womens-day-brazil-400x300.jpg)
On a Grim and Bloody International Women’s Day, Let’s Build Feminist Solidarity
What can we do on International Women’s Day to honor the legacies of feminist internationalists?
![The Authority of Law statue is seen through razor wire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on February 8, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/2022_0307-supreme-court-razorwire-400x300.jpg)
Supreme Court Says Torture at CIA Black Site Is a “State Secret”
The Supreme Court has denied Guantánamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah testimony on his torture at a secret CIA site in Poland.