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Human Rights
Under Trump, US Contempt for International Law Intensifies
Reckless policies have increased the military's role.
Remembering Palestinian Medic Razan al-Najjar, Killed by the Israeli Defense Forces
Palestinian medic Razan al-Najjar was killed as she ran to provide medical aid to a wounded protester.
The United Nations Just Published a Scathing Indictment of US Poverty
The conclusions are damning.
Deportation Looms for 9,000 Nepali Immigrants Displaced by Devastating Earthquake
Nepal's economy is unable to absorb more people.
Trump Turns Up the Anti-Immigrant Hate
The hate directed at MS-13 and Central American migrants represents an escalation of the administration’s scapegoating.
Freedom Flotilla Sails Again to Gaza in Support of the Palestinian Great March of Return
“This is a civil society to civil society mission.”
European Human Rights Court Exposes Further Complicity in CIA Torture
States must own up to and take action on known torturers.
As Hundreds of Civil Rights Cases Are Dismissed by Education Department, National Groups Take on DeVos
The department's new complaint guidelines are undermining its own obligation to investigate civil rights violations.
Trump’s Gag Rule Is an Effort to Undermine Access to Birth Control
The changes around federal family planning funding offer as good as chance as any to recenter the conversation around reproductive rights.
Palestinians Demand Human Rights and Medical Care in Fight to Break Israeli Naval Blockade of Gaza
Members of flotillas discuss more.