Human Rights

This week, a rebel commander in Damascus said that over the months his unit had executed perhaps 150 people it had detained on suspicion of being pro-Assad informants.

Human rights delegation to Egypt concludes any future support to the Egyptian government must meet the people's real needs, not promote the interests of foreign and local elites.

Paraguay's new president Federico Franco fast-tracked negotiations with the mining giant Rio Tinto for a $4 billion aluminum plant on the banks of a river there.

On every military base in Iraq and Afghanistan exists an economy sustained by immigrant workers. For transportation, construction, food services, security and more, the United States government relies on …

Orange County news editor points out cops' cavalier attitude, along with the shooting itself, contributed to community outrage after Manuel Diaz's death.

The widespread killings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma u2013 or Myanmar - have received only passing and dispassionate coverage in most media. What they actually warrant is widespread outrage …

Report finds one African American dies in extrajudicial killing every 36 hours.

The most dangerous forces in the industrialized world are people who are just doing their jobs - the little chores that make vast, complicated systems of exploitation and death …

One of the great works in the establishment of civil and human rights is being shredded before our eyes.

The assumption behind the rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Education (DOE), headed by Arne Duncan, were that the