As part of FSRN’s profile series, we meet Steven Czifra, who’s spent a total of 16 years in California prisons. For eight of those years, he was held in solitary confinement. Czifra spent four...
In Zimbabwe, thousands of villagers in the Masvingo province - about 280 miles south of the capital, Harare - remain homeless after heavy rains last month damaged a 200 million dollar dam. Many of...
After a surge in killings of women in the Palestinian territories, women’s organizations are calling for an end to legal loopholes which allow men to exercise violence against female relatives with impunity. FSRN’s Lena...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s recent report on a request to mine uranium in South Dakota’s Black Hills isn’t going over well with Native Americans and non-Natives alike. As Jim Kent reports, both groups are...
In Brazil, the death of a working class woman, dragged by a police car has caused outrage amongst human rights organizations. President Dilma Rousseff took to Twitter to offer her condolences to the family...
Click on any image to launch the slideshow. Credit & Copyright – CISPES. Listen to Alice Ollstein’s interview with Alexis Stoumbelis, the Executive Director of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El...
On March 9th, the people of El Salvador went to the polls and elected former guerrilla Salvador Sanchez Ceren as President by a razor-thin margin. International observers declared the election “free and fair”, but...
Advocates for labels on all foods that contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are taking a state-by-state approach to legislation, hoping to avoid Congressional gridlock. Max Pringle reports from Sacramento, CA. Download Democratic US...
In the south African nation of Lesotho, known as the “‘Mountain Kingdom,” desertification and land degradation threaten farmers’ livelihoods. Many have migrated to more productive lands, or are struggling to make a living elsewhere....
A hunger strike that began 12 days ago in a privately-operated immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Washington has spread to another center in Conroe, Texas. Shannon Young reports. Download Just after midnight Monday morning,...
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