Advocates for immigration reform continued a series of actions today to demand that families separated by US immigration policies be reunited. Dozens of women and children who had been deported to Mexico, attempted to...
The United States and European Union imposed sanctions Monday on a handful of Russian and Ukrainian officials following the referendum that took place in Crimea on Sunday. More than 96 percent of Crimean voters supported uniting the...
More than a decade ago a leading Muslim human rights lawyer disappeared in Thailand. There has been little progress investigating his disappearance. Human rights activists and the International Commission of Jurists say Thailand needs...
Russian officials are already making plans for the annexation of Crimea ahead of a referendum on the issue in the southern Ukrainian peninsula on Sunday. Officials are defiant against the threat of sanctions by...
In Brazil, Rio state forces have moved in to occupy Vila Kennedy, a violent neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The action is part of the city’s so-called pacification program in which state special forces...
Activists in Florida have been pushing back against the state’s “stand your ground” law as lawmakers in other states – like Ohio and Georgia – contemplate implementing or expanding upon the measure. Florida’s “stand...
[Note for stations: This report contains graphic imagery.] The use of solitary confinement in prisons has come under increased national scrutiny as of late, with many of its critics describing it as torture. While...
A commentary by Mumia Abu Jamal Download It is a national crisis. Worse – it is a crime. Schools all across Black America and in El Barrio are closed, shuttered. What does this mean?...
Immigration detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington began a hunger strike last week to protest conditions at the facility. At the start of the action, ICE confirmed to the Associated Press...
In Turkey, some of the largest crowds since last spring’s Gezi Park protests clashed with riot police following the funeral for a 15-year-old boy who died Tuesday after nearly nine months in a coma...
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