Palestinians need to fashion new forms of struggle—without worrying about approval from the Western governments, media and human rights organizations. ... As’ad AbuKhalil is a Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus. ..…

Both psychological and medical abuse are clear violations not only of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution (injunction against cruel and unusual punishment) but of various international human rights statutes. . It is ironic that the institution which most dramatically exemplifies..…

Canada ‘stupid’ for raising human rights concerns in helicopter deal – Duterte . . . ... Canada ‘stupid’ for raising human rights concerns in helicopter deal – Duterte . . . ..…

We are heading back to Jim Crow and that is not joke, Greg Palast, author and producer of the documentary film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy... ..…

This nomination is crucial including woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions, equality for LGBT people, and the right to free of discrimination. ..…

“It (Bears Ears) is a place known for healing by all tribes and its (monument’s) creation was a recognition of tribal sovereignty, indigenous self-determination, and acknowledgement of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples..…

Until July 13, parents were also asked to pay for the cost of their children’s transport, lawyers with the Texas Civil Rights Project told Human Rights Watch. Those costs were $1,900 in one case documented by the American Civil Liberties Union. . ..…

Daesh Omar al- Shishani Despite US defense officials assessments that Omar al- Shishani, commander of Takfiri Daesh group Syria, likely died in US airstrike, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the militant has survived the attack... American officials, speaking to media..…

So, the US is in the dark just as much as Saudi Arabia when it comes to these human rights violations. . Ahmed: It’s true that since day one, since before the war was launched, American forces, British officers and American officers, were part of the operation; they planned, they..…

These plans constitute the militarization of Tibetan Plateau China's push against India and securing the border, Tibet serving as location of Chinese settlers and the source of natural resources for rapidly industrializing economy.   More ... ..…

Releasing those cleared by review boards or courts would be an obvious victory for civil liberties and human rights, most strikingly in the case of the Uighur prisoners—Chinese Muslims who had never been anti-American but who could not be returned to China for fear of torture and..…

Geneva:  International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM) organised an event on the subject of human rights supported ... . . . ..…

Venezuelans are facing one of the murder rates in the hemisphere need protection from violent crime, said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas at Human Rights Watch.. The groups will present their findings to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at public..…

Since April, when Target announced it would allow transgender people to use the appropriate bathrooms and conservative Christians reacted like this a human rights violation of the worst order, the American Family Association has been promoting a boycott of the store: . ..…

No American has the right to torture another human. It is unfortunate that senators must spell this out in law, but they must. ..…

But until the United States and its European allies wean themselves from dependence on both, we will all remain hostage to the perverse policies of a few kingdoms that care nothing for democracy, human rights, or American strategic interests. . ..…

Wael Khouli, Syrian American, Physician and Human Rights Activist. •Ahmed Tharwat, Host of Arab American TV Program, BelAhdan • Dr. William Beeman, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota. ..…

Those incarcerated in the U.S. are disproportionately African American males. According to a 2010 Human Rights Watch report on American prisons, 'Black non-Hispanic males are incarcerated at a rate more than six times that of white non-Hispanic males and 2.6 times that of..…

Many believe that Delahunty-Yoo memo led to the torturing of prisoners at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons and many other human rights violations by American troops.. ..…

In this week's boralogue, John looks at the in Catholic Church and how scandal and major changes seem to happen in Church every 500 years. ..…

Facts About War Crimes April 26, 2012 . . 1 American Exceptionalism and Human Rights, edited by Michael Ignatieff (Princeton University Press, 2005). See also Stephen Walt, “The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” Foreign Policy, November 2011; and Jerome Karabel,..…

Former Vice President Dick Cheney may have expressed the pervasive American double standard on human rights best during a NBC “Today” show interview when host Matt Lauer asked if Cheney’s support for waterboarding would carry over to its use by a foreign adversary against an..…

Red Cross study on in Gaza Strip, in Knesset to allow Jewish neighborhoods to entry to Israeli Arabs, Israeli human rights report on settlers burning Palestinian olive groves, three more Palestinian teenagers shot — it's unpleasant. But the message of American Jewish..…

In 1998, I was asked to present Washington at conference that dealt with the issue of persecution of Christians and the movement to focus American policy on their plight.. In your 2004 book, Freeing God's Children The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights, that International..…

I would not change any of the fundamental structures in International Religious Freedom Act, except I would use it much the way the early mandating legislation was used regarding Human Rights Bureau, and I think most people would agree on and off, as part of the mainstream of..…

The campaign itself helped to galvanize the movement for a broader focus on human rights in American foreign policy. ... Since 1998, when this business began, both have been nested within the Human Rights Bureau, itself out of the mainstream of American..…

Significant majorities of all Opinion Leader groups would oppose U.S. insistence on applying American human and civil rights standards throughout the world if it seriously risked antagonizing friendly nations that follow different traditions. ..…