Human Rights

The massive, worldwide protests against the Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza are unlike any other we have ever witnessed with regard to Israel-Palestine.

Executions must not be hastily thrown together human science experiments.

He had been hungry. I hadn't been.

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.

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 …

The situation in the occupied Gaza Strip is critical for the civilians living there and requires urgent attention.

Leading doctors and scientists denounce Gaza violence.

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 …

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.

Stop the slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza!