Human Rights Blackwater Sentencing: UN Experts on Mercenaries Call for International Regulation of Private Security “There can be no justice without effective accountability and redress mechanisms for victims.” By Staff , UNHumanRights April 15, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Human Rights Black Lives Matter Activists in South Carolina Demand Reform After Police Killing of Walter Scott Cries of “black lives matter” continue to ring out across the country after new police killings of unarmed African Americans. By Juan González & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 14, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Human Rights As Video Captures Officers’ Fatal Shootings of Unarmed Men, Knowing Your Rights to Film the Police As video proves decisive in holding police accountable for abuses nationwide, we are joined by Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at the … By Juan González & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 14, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Human Rights Father of One of the Missing Mexican 43 on How Drug War Aid “Being Used to Annihilate Students” Mexican authorities have declared the 43 students dead. By Juan González & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 10, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Human Rights TSA’s Airport “Behavior Detection Program” Found to Target Undocumented Immigrants, Not Terrorists The Intercept found that 90 percent of all those arrested were detained for being in the country illegally. By Amy Goodman & Aaron Maté , DemocracyNow! April 8, 2015 Truthout
News | Human Rights Mexican Migrant Children Forgotten at the Border Mexican children rarely get an opportunity to tell their story before an immigration judge. By Staff , WashingtonOfficeonLatinAmerica April 7, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Human Rights George Takei: LGBT Protections Still Needed Despite Amended Indiana, Arkansas Religious Freedom Laws Both Indiana and Arkansas have passed fixes to their laws. By Juan González & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 3, 2015 Truthout
News | Human Rights Indiana Scrambles to Contain Growing Corporate, Public Outcry Over Anti-LGBT “Religious Freedom” Law A number of states and cities have also taken action, banning officials from traveling to Indiana. By Juan González & Amy Goodman , DemocracyNow! April 1, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Human Rights The Palestinian Arab Citizens of Israel: Pointing the Way Forward That the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel have fought for their rights for 67 years and continue to advance in their struggle gives me hope. By Dr. James J. Zogby , SpeakOut March 31, 2015 Truthout
Human Rights New Report Provides Data on Marijuana Arrests and Charges in Colorado After Legalization Marijuana possession charges decrease. By Staff , DrugPolicyAlliance March 26, 2015 Truthout