Human Rights

Human Rights Watch issued a statement condemning Alfaro's anti-American accusations.

The most common reason people are in jail is because they can't afford the fee.

They used to call them snitches, but as rock star whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden have demonstrated, whistleblowing is often a very brave thing to do.

If you stop jailing people in The Land of The Free, a good chunk of America would wither up and die.

Faced with the failure of conventional lobbying, the climate protection movement is now turning to mass civil disobedienceu2014but we can take it further still.

Idle No More and Defenders of the Land networks condemn the court judgment granting an injunction to Penn West Petroleum Ltd (Penn West) to remove Lubicon Lake Nation Land …

As private prisons become the norm in the United States, it's time society takes a look at the institution and asks,

There can be no peace without justice. At least five areas of blatant injustice warrant the urgent attention of people of good will: poverty wages, immigrant detention, harsh sentencing, …

Last week the High Court of Australia struck down as unconstitutional a statute allowing same-sex marriage.

As the Syrian war intensifies sectarian clashes in Lebanonu2019s northern coastal city Tripoli, Palestinians in the area worriedly watch the violence from the sidelines.