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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.
There Is No Rule Requiring the Criminalization of Immigrants — Trump Created It
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We're now more than a year into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always …
Why Was Claudia Patricia Gómez González Murdered?
Claudia Patricia Gómez González's life mattered, and what activists do now matters.
Trump’s Plan for Migrants Fleeing Violence: Blame Democrats and Expand Family Detention
GOP hopes to win midterms by imprisoning migrant families.
“Don’t Treat Us Like Animals”: Outrage Builds After Border Agent Kills Indigenous Guatemalan Woman
Family members are demanding justice for Claudia Gomez Gonzalez.
Historically, the Biggest Violator of Human Rights on the Korean Peninsula Isn’t North Korea
The US is to blame for the most abhorrent abuses.
How Do You Get Off the US “Kill List”?
Citizens on the list have no due process rights.