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Human Rights
Demand An End to Executions and Secrecy
Executions must not be hastily thrown together human science experiments.
Have You Ever Been Hungry?
He had been hungry. I hadn't been.
Truthout Interviews Marjorie Cohn on Israel and Gaza
Professor of law and Truthout contributor Marjorie Cohn lays out some of the legal violations of humanitarian law the Israelis have committed in their ongoing occupation of Gaza City.
Arizona Inmate Takes Two Hours to Die in Botched Execution Using Experimental Two-Drug Cocktail
The state of Arizona has taken one hour and 57 minutes to kill a prisoner in a botched execution, which was carried out using the same combination of drugs …
Statement by Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The situation in the occupied Gaza Strip is critical for the civilians living there and requires urgent attention.
An Open Letter for the People in Gaza
Leading doctors and scientists denounce Gaza violence.
Harassing the Drones
Judge David Gideon sentenced Mary Anne Grady Flores to a year in prison and fined her $1,000 for photographing a peaceful demonstration at the US Air National Guard's 174th …
Libyan Renditions Case In Court As UK “Lobbies for Secrecy” In Key Torture Report
Abdul-Hakim Belhaj, an anti-Gaddafi dissident, and his wife Fatima Boudchar, who was five months pregnant at the time, were kidnapped and flown to Muammar Gaddafi's prisons in 2004.
Veterans Deliver Letter to Israeli Ambassador
Stop the slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza!
US Turns Back on Child Migrants After Its Policies in Guatemala, Honduras Sowed Seeds of Crisis
As tens of thousands of children cross the US border fleeing violence in their native Central American home countries, the hosts look at the historical roots of the crisis.