Human Rights

After Afghanistan disaster, the Pentagon is on track to get even more money (2)

Nov 10, 2021 16:03

The defeat in Afghanistan offers a chance to rethink America’s war machine, but Congress is on the verge of raising military spending to $740 billion.
Border arrests have soared to all-time high, new CBP data shows

Nov 07, 2021 18:58

U.S. authorities detained more than 1.7 million migrants along the Mexico border during the 2021 fiscal year that ended in September, and arrests by the Border Patrol soared to the highest levels ever recorded, according to unpublished U.S. Customs and Border Protection data obtained by The Washington Post.
Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike against detention reaches 100 days

Nov 05, 2021 20:33

Several Palestinian political prisoners have been on hunger strikes in the Zionist regime's jails for more than 100 days as they protest against their administrative detention and harsh prison conditions.
Canadian imperialism: Back to the future

Nov 02, 2021 23:03

Canada’s creation out of mostly British imperial interests carried all the factors of imperialism internally as it developed across the North American continent. Currently, it still acts within the imperial prerogative, both domestically with its indigenous population and overseas with various other countries, frequently under the aegis of the US, but often enough acting on its own accord.
Amazon and Google: Partners in Israeli regime apartheid

Oct 28, 2021 20:47

Amazon and Google are actively working to build and improve the technological infrastructure the Zionist regime needs to surveil Palestinians and confine them to the ghettos the Israeli regime’s army has created for them.
'Reckless': Doctors Without Borders slams US for hoarding 500 million vaccine doses

Oct 14, 2021 19:55

The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has recently unveiled a new report estimating that the United States is hoarding nearly 500 million excess coronavirus vaccine doses—the most of any country—as poor nations across the globe remain without sufficient access to lifesaving shots.
Hurricane Ida is proof US systemic racism aggravates effects of climate crisis

Oct 08, 2021 20:08

When US government allows exploitative real estate corporations to develop shoddy private developments to maximize profit and displace Black residents, thousands are left without homes during a disaster.
Biden’s expulsion of Haitian migrants is racist, illegal — and Trumpian

Oct 06, 2021 21:19

Biden is continuing former president Donald Trump’s policy of misusing Title 42 in violation of U.S. treaty obligations. The Title 42 program stems from a misapplication of an obscure public health law, the Public Health Service Act of 1944.
Images of US Border Patrol’s treatment of Haitian migrants prompt outrage

Sep 23, 2021 20:02

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it was investigating the treatment of Haitian migrants by Customs and Border Patrol agents after video and images surfaced of the agents on horseback chasing down migrants at the southern border.
Environmental threats rapidly becoming 'single greatest challenge to human rights': UN

Sep 16, 2021 20:16

The planetary crisis is "impacting a broad range of rights, including the rights to adequate food, water, education, housing, health, development, and even life itself," said the U.N.'s top rights expert.