On AlterNet: human rights
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "human rights"
Bill Weinberg, AlterNet. May 14, 2008.
Indigenous people around the world see in the struggle for Tibet their own struggles for recovery of land and autonomy. We must not remain silent.
Cristina Jimenez, Drum Major Institute. May 13, 2008.
It really shouldn't matter what one's opinion about the larger immigration question is -- these are basic issues of human rights.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: PEEK. May 5, 2008.
A Summit County judge ordered the county medical examiner to delete any reference that Tasers contributed to the deaths of three Ohio men.
Roberto Lovato, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. May 2, 2008.
Nationwide rallies highlight the failure of the war on immigrants.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. April 22, 2008.
Hit them where it hurts---the pocketbook.
Daniel Howden, Rachel Shields, Independent UK. April 21, 2008.
In Saudi Arabia, women literally belong to men. A new report describes the demoralizing reality of this gender apartheid system.
David Neiwert, AlterNet: PEEK. April 16, 2008.
Why are patriotic Americans echoing language of tragedies past?
Sabotabby, AlterNet: PEEK. April 15, 2008.
Where did our good journalists go? Apparently, they've been locked away.
Digby, AlterNet: PEEK. April 14, 2008.
Why did the President go so far as acting out the torture he wanted to see?
David Wallechinsky, Huffington Post. April 9, 2008.
Do protest the policies of the Chinese Communist Party. Don't act in a way that feeds into Chinese government propaganda.
Timothy Garton Ash, Comment Is Free. March 25, 2008.
It would be great to watch the Olympics in Beijing this summer, but not over the dead bodies of Buddhist monks.
Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. March 24, 2008.
All over the world gay men, lesbians, and transgender people are denied fundamental freedoms. America is not doing enough to help.
Dave Zirin, The Nation. March 22, 2008.
China joins a long, proud tradition of countries carrying out brutal political crackdowns in honor of the Olympics.
Sue Katz, Consenting Adult AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 7, 2008.
On Saturday, women around the world will celebrate our progress and plans for the future. Where will you be?
Jemima Khan, The Independent UK. March 5, 2008.
Even in the face of extreme adversity, women around the world are using their experiences to teach and to heal.
Maxine Frith, The Independent UK. March 5, 2008.
Rates of female participation in governments across the world are still appallingly low, and women face endemic discrimination in nearly all sectors.
Daniel Volman, Beth Tuckey, Foreign Policy in Focus. March 2, 2008.
The Pentagon's new AFRICOM is all about securing oil resources, countering terrorism, and rolling back Chinese influence.
Kavita N. Ramdas, The Nation. February 26, 2008.
Despite general talk about race and gender in the election, there has been shamefully little emphasis on the real problems of global inequality.
Terri Judd, The Independent UK. February 25, 2008.
The U.S. and Britain claim to have "liberated" Afghanistan, but the women on the ground tell a different story.
Terri Judd, The Independent UK. February 25, 2008.
The U.S. and Britain claim to have "liberated" Afghanistan, but the women on the ground tell a different story.
Marcy Bloom, RH Reality Check. February 25, 2008.
Anti-choicers panic over "abortion tourism," but only the most privileged women can escape local "pro-life" laws. The rest simply suffer.
Kim Sengupta, The Independent UK. February 1, 2008.
Six years after "liberation," civil rights are getting worse in Afghanistan.
Roxanna Altholz, UC Berkeley School of Law. January 28, 2008.
An army general who participated in one of the country's worst massacres in recent history goes free.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. January 23, 2008.
"Women's rights are human rights" is a standard feminist adage, but anti-choice groups seem to think women are more like incubators than people.
Claudia Núñez, New America Media. December 27, 2007.
Women are active participants, and often the masterminds, behind the world's third most lucrative illegal activity: people smuggling.
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