Human Rights

(Photo: Larisa Epatko / Flickr)Guantanamo Bay Navy Base, Cuba - Accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his alleged co-conspirators put on a defiant show at their war court …

A municipal police officer at a crime scene in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, October 28, 2011. (Photo: Katie Orlinsky / The New York Times) Charles Bowden dubbed Ciudad Juárez "Murder …

Posters of 22 fugitives, including Osama bin Laden, line a wall at the FBI headquarters in Washington, October 10, 2001. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times)A few …

A Note From the Writer It seems my destiny has placed me here to make my stand for human rights. On March 7 of 1969 in Chicago, I was …

"On the one hand, it's deeply worrying that the government is seeking to create a surveillance culture that encompasses spying on all digital media. "On the other, that same …

The World Bank and Wall Street firms targeted for African land deals displacing hundreds of thousands.

Even though we are 5 percent of the world's population, we have 25 percent of the prisoners in the world.

Joann Cross didn't travel from El Paso, Texas, to Washington, DC, to get arrested. In fact, she's always believed that getting arrested was the wrong way to make a …

Rio de Janeiro - Social movements from several countries accused Brazil's Vale, the world's second largest mining company, of causing serious environmental and social damage, as well as the …

President Barack Obama embraces Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, April 23, 2012. Obama announced Monday a plan to impose sanctions against foreign …