On AlterNet: human rights
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "human rights"
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. November 20, 2009.
Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it.
Jill Garvey, Imagine 2050 AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 2, 2009.
Perhaps the best guide as our nation traverses immigration reform is to demand that every immigrant, refugee, and citizen is treated as a human being.
Donald Macintyre, Independent UK. October 5, 2009.
The UN's refugee agency plans to include the Holocaust in a new human rights curriculum despite strident opposition to the idea from Hamas.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. August 17, 2009.
Police officers are brutalizing innocent civilians with accelerating lunacy. How did this happen? How can we make it stop?
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. August 4, 2009.
There's no indication that getting hate crimes on the books actually prevents them.
AlterNet AlterNet: ImmigrationJuly 30, 2009.
New legislation would address some of the worst abuses in the system.
Michele Waslin, Immigration Impact. July 30, 2009.
“If the government were engaged in these types of systematic and widespread constitutional violations toward any other group ..."
Greg Grandin, AlterNet. July 28, 2009.
A preliminary human rights report shows censorship, intimidation and murder.
Ali Gharib, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. July 13, 2009.
Show your solidarity for the human rights of the protesters in Iran at a local event near you.
Steve Kretzmann, Huffington Post. June 11, 2009.
If Shell's CEO really cared about the Ogoni people, he would end practices that continue to ruin their lives.
Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. June 1, 2009.
The recent haggling over Guantanamo is such classic Democratic Party politics, it's almost laughable. Almost, except that it's, you know, revolting.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet: PEEK. May 29, 2009.
The administration's eagerness to 'move forward' past the torture issue will bite it in the ass. Or stab it in the neck.
Marc R. Rosenblum, Boston Review. May 29, 2009.
Drafting immigration policy means understanding necessary structures of American law already in place.
Douglas Massey, Boston Review. May 28, 2009.
The current immigration crisis stems from deeper U.S. policy failures that must be addressed.
Agence France PresseMay 28, 2009.
Amnesty lamented Obama's "limited action" on inhumane detention policies, as well as his inaction on seeking accountability for past abuses.
Mae M. Ngai, Boston Review. May 27, 2009.
The longer migrants stay in the United States, the stronger their moral claim to remain. So why do we keep kicking them out?
Han Shan, Huffington Post. May 26, 2009.
Business as usual: Shell is trying to suppress the truth.
John Cusack, Huffington Post. May 19, 2009.
We can't whitewash institutionalized torture, trash any conceivable notion of the rule of law, and call that 'looking forward.'
AlterNetMarch 28, 2009.
Human rights groups have called for an indictment of Bush administration officials for years.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. March 23, 2009.
In one instance, the report finds, soldiers used an 11-year-old boy as a human shield. Any guess on whether the U.S. media will cover the report?
Darius Rejali, Slate. March 21, 2009.
Sleep deprivation, extremes of temperature, noise, and beatings are some of the nastier methods the U.S. employed in the Bush era.
Cara, Feministe AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. March 3, 2009.
"The day originated in 2001 when over 25,000 sex workers gathered in India for a sex worker festival."
Mohamed Farag Bashmilah, Huffington Post. February 20, 2009.
The American public needs to face what has happened to those of us who were disappeared and mistreated in the name of their national security.
Mark Townsend, Paul Harris, Independent UK. February 9, 2009.
Dozens of hunger strikes, beatings, instances of forced feeding and other atrocities have reportedly reduced Guantanamo to near chaos.
Center for Constitutional RightsJanuary 22, 2009.
Under Bush, executive orders meant shredding the Constitution. It's uplifting to see them used to set things right.
