Human Rights

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 …

Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. The Economist maps out every American execution since 1976, when the Supreme Court announced the …

Lupita Sanchez, coordinator for community action services at Proyecto Juan Diego, helps Cameron Park colonia residents become empowered through getting out the vote. (Photo by Mark Karlin.)This is the …

Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. An Afghan boy waits as his father receives medical care at a cooperative medical engagement site near …

An important fight between rich countries and developing countries over the question of UN involvement in researching and advocating for a new global financial architecture has spilled into the …

Anyone who would like to witness a vivid example of modern warfare that adheres to the laws of war — that corpus of regulations developed painstakingly over centuries by …

Dozens arrested in an international day of solidarity where 1500 activists tried to land in Israel's Ben Gurion Airport to travel to the occupied Palestinian territories.  

Consider the story of Leah Bolger, the latest American hero up on trial: She is a young female artist in the Midwest. She joins the Navy at 22, is …