Human Rights

President Obama has called for close to $3.7 billion to address the humanitarian crisis unfolding at the US-Mexico border where more than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been detained since …

We need to go back to where all the ladders start, at the rag and bone shop of the heart, at the Human Rights level.

A new report by The Intercept has identified five prominent Muslim Americans who were spied on by the National Security Agency.

The measures, known as the residence test, would block anyone resident outside the UK from receiving legal aid.

The Snowden disclosures show not only the specifics of domestic surveillance, but also that the struggle we are facing is not privacy versus security, but democracy versus tyranny.

The banning of communal prayers at Guantanamo is one of a series of recent measures against detainees on hunger strike.

This commentary was written in 2003, but has continued relevance that makes it a must-read for Independence Day.

Judges uphold use of Alien Tort Statute post-Kiobel.

In which the remarkable lack of criminal prosecutions coming from the Justice Department in the aftermath of the financial crisis is explained, also the heightened danger to finance insider …

The Zapatista "struggle is our struggle, everywhere, in every city, in every country of the world. We are in a very difficult moment, in a terrible moment of humankind, …