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Human Rights
85 Percent of Voters Want Congress to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment
The ERA is a nearly 100-year-old measure that would enshrine equal rights for all genders in the Constitution.
Abd El-Fattah Is a Political Prisoner in Egypt. US Aid Is Funding His Jailers.
Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah, voice of the Arab Spring revolutions, began a hunger strike on April 2.
Israel Says No Criminal Probe Into Killing of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Abu Akleh's family urged the U.S. and international community to open an investigation and “put an end to the killings.”
Journalists Accused Israel of Targeting Them 2 Weeks Before Killing of Abu Akleh
Israel killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as she was documenting Israeli war crimes.
Sanders Condemns Israeli Forces for Attack on Slain Journalist’s Funeral
Several other progressive lawmakers joined calls for an independent investigation into the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh.
People in US Don’t Support the Gaza Blockade. Why Won’t Congress Take Action?
Congress has chosen to remain willfully oblivious to the suffering of Palestinians living under Israel's cruel blockade.
Indian Boarding Schools Were Part of “Genocidal Process” Carried Out by the US
Historian and The Red Nation co-founder Nick Estes puts a new report on the deaths of Indigenous children in context.
Rashid Khalidi: Murder of Shireen Abu Akleh Exposes Systemic Israeli Violence
Israeli forces have “systematically targeted” Palestinian journalists to obscure abuses, historian Rashid Khalidi says.
Israeli Forces Shot and Killed Palestinian American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Akleh was covering an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp when she was shot by a sniper, according to Al Jazeera.
Alabama Ban on Trans Youth Health Care Is Part of Attack on Bodily Autonomy
Right-wing attacks on abortion care and bans on trans health care are connected, Chase Strangio says.