Truthout
Human Rights
Burmese Junta Escalates Attack on Resistance: Bombs Civilians, Killing 100
The junta increasingly uses airstrikes to crush resistance, targeting schools and clinics run by the opposition.
Water Is a Human Right. Let’s Create a Society That Affirms This.
We have come to know water as the latest casualty of late capitalism’s doctrine of scarcity.
Netanyahu Delays Judicial Overhaul While Further Empowering Israel’s Far Right
Netanyahu agreed to establish a new national guard under the control of the ultranationalist national security minister.
Human Rights Groups Call on Biden Not to Revive Migrant Family Detention
“The Biden administration … is going against all the promises that they made on the campaign trail,” said Silky Shah.
Human Rights Groups Condemn Settler Pogrom Against Palestinians in West Bank
Israeli settlers’ violent attacks Sunday constituted a “pogrom” sanctioned by the far right government, said B’Tselem.
Disability Justice Organizers Dream Big and Resist a Culture of Disposability
Disabled mutual aid sees us as people who have skills and gifts to offer, says Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Lawsuit Uncovers Chicago’s Failure to Provide Disability Protections in Housing
Advocates say people with disabilities are suffering the worst consequences of the U.S.’s affordable housing crisis.
Israel Defies International Law to Legalize 9 Settler Colonies on Occupied Land
The nine settler colonies “legalized” by the far right government were considered illegal even under Israeli law.
There Was No Mention of 853 Migrant Deaths in 2022 in Biden’s State of the Union
We need the wholesale immigration reform we were promised and a president that understands that asylum is immutable.
We Can’t Just Let Blinken Give Israeli Apartheid the US Stamp of Approval
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says “shared values” bind the U.S. and Israel. He must mean settler-colonialism.