Issues / Human Rights
Warnings about the human and environmental costs of “free trade” went unheeded. Now the most vulnerable Central Americans are paying the price.
With 43 disappeared student teachers presumed dead, Mexican popular resistance is creating new alternatives to the militarized narco-state.
The difficulties that Continental Army veterans experienced obtaining benefits mirror those of veterans today.
Backsliding reforms, attacks on civilians, and evidence of war crimes are among the troubling reports just ahead of President Obama’s visit to Burma.
According to Central Europe expert Dariusz Kalan, the biggest mistake since the Warsaw Pact was disbanded is that “we don’t have a common voice in Central Europe.”
In calling out corporations for profiting off child labor, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi recognized that you can't have peace without justice.
Burkina Faso, known as the “land of upright men” (pace women), forced long-time president Blaise Compaoré to resign.
For the Islamic State to preside over a caliphate takes money — lots of it.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced one of the most provocative settlements yet.
The murder of a transgender woman in the Philippines reveals both the transphobia of the U.S. Marine Corps and the dangers of U.S. military presence in the region.