Human Rights

Tanya Lee speaks with Ted Asregadoo about the startlingly high rates of gender-based violence among Native American and Native Alaskan communities and the lack of access the victims of …

Abu Wa'el Dhiab, a father of four from Syria, is currently asking the DC District Court to order a halt to abusive force-feeding methods and the practice of unnecessary …

The Zionist state's present blitzkrieg in Gaza may be the worst of that nation's ongoing series of violations of International humanitarian law.

Wars fail eleven litmus tests for being just or necessary.

The Central Intelligence Agency has admitted its officials spied on a Senate panel probing the agency's torture and rendition program.

The fact is that Americans entering prison are already sicker and poorer than other Americans.

The Obama administration has expanded the national terrorist watchlist system by approving broad guidelines over who can be targeted.

Senate Democrats have introduced a bill allocating $2.7 billion this year to deal with the surge of unaccompanied children and families from Central America entering the United States.

Tears and grief, anger and helplessness all come naturally in the face of insanity.

This is the way the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been presented - the Israelis are real people whom you can see and know, as individual stories, versus an amorphous …