Truthout
Human Rights
Child Migrants Around the World Are Being Denied Their Human Rights
The US is the only nation not to have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Alabama Doesn’t Value Its Own Residents’ “Sanctity of Life”
The state has adopted a raft of cruel policies calculated to make life tougher and shorter for its residents.
ICE Uses Solitary Confinement to Punish Marginalized Asylum Seekers
Immigration officers use isolation cells to punish gay, transgender and disabled immigrants for their identities.
Saudi Feminist Loujain al-Hathloul Was Waterboarded, Flogged and Electrocuted
Al-Hathloul's siblings discuss the government's abuse of their sister and other activists.
Head of Program Profiling Muslims in Chicago Steps Down Amid Pressure
Recent iterations of the program have rebranded, using progressive-sounding frames to obscure their true intent.
How Bolivian Indigenous Peoples Mobilized History for Social Change
Indigenous Bolivians recovered and popularized histories of past rebellions, using them to build new movements.
Israel Defense Forces Shoot 16 Palestinians at Nakba Day Protests
This comes as 1 million people in besieged Gaza face hunger.
How Assad’s Torture Machine Crushed Dissent in Syria
A shocking exposé looks at how Bashar al-Assad’s government has jailed and tortured tens of thousands of Syrians.
Mainstream Charities Are Bankrolling Islamophobic Hate Groups
More than 1,000 nonprofit foundations poured $125 million into 39 anti-Muslim organizations from 2014 to 2016.
Israeli Law Silences and Punishes Critics and Human Rights Workers
The self-proclaimed only “real” democracy in the Middle East is busy deporting its critics.