Human Rights

A UN Committee has published a scathing denunciation of US failures to honor its treaty commitments to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

None of the ten signatories, all victims of CIA rendition, have been officially acknowledged by the US government.

The current humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border remains hidden from view, leaving many people, including students, completely unaware that thousands of impoverished people have died.

On Saturday, August 30, more than 6,000 people took to the streets of Berlin, Germany to protest against intelligence agencies' mass surveillance.

"We have become less and less aware of the changed environment in which disposing of lives takes place and the forms that disposability takes, so that we no longer …

Mr. Aamer, who has been cleared for release by both the Bush and Obama administrations, has been held for long periods of solitary confinement since 2005 and is in …

Zekerullah yearns for knowledge as well as justice, and he's willing to sacrifice for both.

Lawyers and activists in Detroit are fighting to keep the City Emergency management from re-starting the cutting off of city water to strapped residents.

A new report released today from IATP takes an in-depth look at how tar sands have developed from an unconventional, inefficient energy source to the spotlight of the corporate …

Sharif Mobley, from New Jersey, disappeared from Sana'a Central Prison six months ago and has been held in secret detention ever since.