Human Rights

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.

Despite California's historic drought, San Francisco's homeless will continue to be forced off Market Street with pressurized water.

From police killings, to Stand Your Ground laws, to Medicaid refusal in majority-minority states, 50 years after Freedom Summer and the Civil Rights Act, activist Mab Segrest says structural …

Those who commit the mass murder of children don't get to mourn the mass murder of children.