Subjects Archives: Human Rights

Fifty years ago, the UN designated 1975 as the International Year of Women.

For years, academic historians had dismissed the allegation that the U.S. had engaged in germ warfare in Korea as communist propaganda.

You have to understand this notion of freedom—that to be free, you have to make someone else less free—to make sense of the idea that Donald Trump is a champion of “free speech.”

Baffled by the voters who shunned Bidenomics and complained about the economy, Democratic Party pundits are convinced that voters are simply ignorant of the facts.

Under the auspices of the Bolivarian Revolution’s call for people’s power, a self-organized Indigenous commune looks for state support to enhance its traditional production methods.

Pushing for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and War.

Trump’s actions signal need to understand global history of white supremacy.

A new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as an important deadline for ceasefire negotiations draws near.

An Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon that builds on Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ and other traditions.

On dozens of occasions I’ve responded to Kurtz’ racist, violent anti-Palestinian posts on X. Six weeks ago I wrote an article..

Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life–it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present, and demand the impossible of the future.

Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive life sentences to home confinement.

Venezuelan detainees are currently being held in the overseas camp and deprived of contact with relatives or legal counsel.

Donald Trump’s expansion of migrant detention in Guantánamo Bay follows years of torture. Meanwhile, the people of Cuba have always fought for their land to be freed from U.S. imperialism.

We we are living in an extremely dangerous time.

The U.S. president is reviving old-style colonialism.

Israeli troops were ordered to shoot and kill captive Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023, Israel’s then defence minister has admitted, the Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley reports.

The attempt to remove Palestinians from Gaza is nothing new.

Google’s changes also removed Women’s History Month, National Native American Heritage Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Jewish Heritage Month, and Holocaust Remembrance Day.

February 4, 2025 marked the thirty-third anniversary of the attempted seizure of power by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.