Subjects Archives: Human Rights

The calculated and cruel violence suffered by Gisèle Pelicot has shaken the world to its core, yet her demand to make the trial public and shift the shame to the perpetrators of these acts, has inspired many.

The federal trial of the Uhuru 3 has begun. The egregious charges of being foreign agents don’t bode well for the future of free speech and the radical Black movement. However, the movement will continue to struggle and resist these attacks on human rights.

Daniel Jadue, a member of the Communist Party of Chile and the former mayor of Recoleta, was released after being held in preventative detention for 91 days.

Vice President Kamala Harris promises to build three million affordable houses if elected president.

No migrant wants to leave their home and be treated as a second-class citizen by countries that forced their migration in the first place.

The articles, speeches, and communiqués of Amilcar Cabral are required reading for revolutionaries today who are struggling with the agrarian question and the current wave of revolutions.

As hunger threatens millions in southern Africa, some of the governments in these wildlife-rich countries have started harvesting game such as elephants, hippopotamuses, buffaloes, zebras, and others to feed their citizens.

Reginald D Hunter is the latest target of pro-Israel provocateurs feigning victimhood. Time to bring down the curtain on this pantomime, says Rivkah Brown.

Following the the murder of a young female doctor in Kolkata, health workers, medical unions, and women’s movements have mobilised across the country to decry rampant gender-based violence and dangerous working conditions.

It’s so unfair how Israel’s neighbors keep attacking it completely unprovoked while Israel is just innocently minding its own business trying to commit a little genocide in peace.

Being the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela a founding member country of the ALBA-TCP, a unionist project, envisioned by the Liberator Simón Bolívar and the heroes of the independence deeds of Latin America and the Caribbean and realized by Commanders Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías and Fidel Castro Ruz; the member countries of this great Alliance acknowledge that this kind Our American nation is a sovereign and independent country, with high democratic standards, which, in compliance with its sacred Constitution, organized presidential elections, in accordance with the corresponding regulatory times.

“As such, it was necessary to engage authorities in Namibia on issues of concern to ensure our decisions and actions domestically are aligned with our obligations in terms of international law and our policy stance of many years on Palestine.”

By adopting unilateral U.S.-European sanctions against Russia in February 2022, even though it had always claimed that it would only apply sanctions endorsed by the United Nations and enshrined in international law, the Swiss government has dealt a heavy blow to neutrality and international Geneva. But in Geneva, nobody flinched. And here are the reasons why.

Western media companies have made themselves a part of the mechanism of genocide in Palestine, and there are historical precedents for holding them accountable.

Phil Donahue passed away Sunday night, after a long illness. He was beloved by those who knew him and by many who didn’t.

The six justices who voted to criminalize the homeless have a combined net worth of $54 million. 

For the merchants of war, the collective pain and misery of whole nations is dwarfed by the lucrative deals of billions of dollars generated from weapons sales.

Big oil and gas company Chevron is deeply entwined with the Israeli state.

Two secretive prison units that used to almost exclusively house people said to be connected to terrorism have expanded by nearly 80 percent in 15 years, and a new unit is on the way. Formerly incarcerated people say they have been used to punish dissent.

Our country must move beyond symbolic representations of women like Kali, Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati, and instead offer genuine respect and equality.