Subjects Archives: Human Rights

Francis’ Cuban saga began in March 2014, when he wrote personal letters to Barack Obama and Raúl Castro. He offered the Vatican as neutral ground for discreet dialogue, which took place sometimes in public and sometimes in absolute confidentiality. He did so without fanfare or press releases, as is usually the case with efforts that pursue truly momentous goals.

How one North Carolina family fights the U.S. land policy that robs Black descendants of their inheritance—and their autonomy.

Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.

In December, Potter, a self-styled counter-extremism expert, published a lengthy exposé in The Jerusalem Post, claiming that red. media, MintPress News, and The Grayzone were part of a network of far-left outlets promoting extremism and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

It’s significant that Jagmeet Singh raised Israel’s genocide at both leaders’ debates.

Defying Ecuador’s attempt to bar international monitors, election observers documented how Daniel Noboa’s contested victory, secured amid militarized polling stations and state violence, escalates the assault on Afro-Ecuadorian communities.

As a law firm under attack from the Trump Administration, you face an impossible choice.

Trump gives Israel “the green light to rain fire and hell on Gaza” – new manager, same empire.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that “aid has dried up, and the floodgates of horror have re-opened” in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid and resumed its assault.

Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attacks on Social Security aren’t about efficiency.

The situation must be stated with absolute clarity: The Trump administration is moving systematically and deliberately to establish a dictatorship.

Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, died while held in Israeli custody in Megiddo prison in northern Israel on the morning of March 22 after collapsing in the prison yard, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine.

The United Nations agency reports that at least 322 children were killed and 609 were injured in the Gaza Strip over the past 10 days, following the resumption of Israeli bombing on March 18, 2025.

Encampments spring up at hundreds of campuses as students object to their own university’s investment in the U.S. and Israeli arms industry.

American doctors who volunteered in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children being shot by Israeli snipers.

“The world of media scholarship, journalists far and wide, and anyone who cares about a free press, a functioning democracy, and a better world has suffered a tremendous loss,” said Common Dreams’ managing editor.

Imagine a group of a dozen armed men storming your village at nightfall. They assault you and your neighbours, throw stones at your house, beat you. If you try to defend yourself, or document the violence, they attack you. When the military arrives, they detain you. Some of them join in with the violence. This harrowing scene is not a story from Tsarist Russia or Jim Crow America. Last Monday, this was exactly what occurred in the Palestinian village of Susya in the occupied West Bank.

As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorship with his pen.

The White House said it planned to once again invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to extradite Venezuelan nationals.

A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States.