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Pfizer Is Upholding Global Vaccine Apartheid. Today We Risk Arrest to Stop It.
Billions of people still haven’t received their first dose due to their inability to access a COVID vaccine.
Thousands in Cuba Protest Amid Deep Economic Crisis and Ongoing US Blockade
The biggest protests Cuba has seen in decades come as people face shortages of medicine, food, and other resources.
Olympics Needs to End Restrictions on Free Speech of Athletes
Olympics athletes are defending their right to protest against racism, police violence and human rights violations.
Over 100 Anti-Protest Bills Have Been Introduced Since George Floyd Rebellion
Often backed by organizations affiliated with police unions, the laws encompass a wide range of punitive tactics.
A National Strike Has Reignited in Colombia — and Is Winning Some Victories
The strike forced the government to withdraw a tax on basic necessities and subsidize college for low-income students.
Cori Bush, AOC Launch Inquiry Into Health Effects of Tear Gas Used by Police
Tear gas is disallowed in war, the lawmakers say, but police regularly use it on the people they’re supposed to protect.
Refugees Insist Humanitarian Organization UNHCR Disregards Their Humanity
With few or no media outlets available to them, refugees’ grievances are drowned out by the UNHCR-perpetuated narrative.
UN Human Rights Head Urges End to Violence After Troops Deployed in Colombia
Demonstrators have spent over a month in the streets over long-term conditions in the country.
Canada Is No Utopia for Advocates of Palestinian Human Rights
Canada displays a pattern of systematically silencing anyone who advocates for Palestine.
Chomsky: Protests Unleashed by Murder of George Floyd Exceed All in US History
World-renowned scholar Noam Chomsky discusses the killing of George Floyd and how the U.S. fomented a “gun culture.”