The Philippines’ Human Rights Commission has called for an investigation of 47 corporate carbon-producers plaintiffs say contribute to climate change. The unprecedented case will hear testimony from typhoon survivors as the commission considers the...
Overnight bombings and arson attacks in Thailand’s southern provinces this week left scores dead and injured, triggering renewed concerns of political turbulence. FSRN’s Ron Corben reports from Bangkok. Download Audio Bombing and arson attacks Thursday...
The World Social Forum has been held regularly around the world since 2001 bringing together tens of thousands of activists committed to social justice and resistance to vulture capitalism. Originally conceived as an alternative...
The Department of Justice has released a report on its civil rights investigation of the Baltimore Police Department – finding officers routinely engage in unconstitutional and illegal practices, most often against people of color....
Human rights groups are reacting with alarm to a proposed $1.15 billion dollar transfer of U.S. battle tanks and other weapons to Saudi Arabia – a day after the Gulf country resumed bombing Yemen’s...
India’s human rights activist Irom Sharmila ended her 16 year hunger strike this week. Force-fed through a tube by court order, by some accounts Sharmila weighed about 77 pounds. As Bismillah Geelani reports, the...
Wednesday marks 71 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By the end of 1945 widely accepted estimates say about 214,000 people – mostly civilians – had died; an unknown...
The Greens held their party convention over the weekend in Houston where they picked Jill Stein as the party’s nominee to run for president. She spoke with FSRN’s Seán Kinane about the November election....
Turkey may defy international pressure and reintroduce the death penalty in the wake of last month’s abortive coup. That was a central theme of the weekend’s massive Democracy and Martyrs’ Rally in Istanbul. FSRN’s...
Videos released in Chicago police killing; questions persist in Baltimore shooting Protests in Paris over deaths in police custody have parallels with Black Lives Matter Forced evictions taint Olympics’ legacy in Rio Spike in...
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