Human Rights

Inside ICE’s Broken System For Inspecting Detention Facilities

August 20, 2026 Isabel Del Mastro and René Kladzyk, POGO. Educate! Accountability, Detention Centers, Human Rights, ICE, Immigrant Rights

When the inspectors came to Prairieland Detention Facility, pancakes appeared on the breakfast menu, Leqaa Kordia recalled. The walls sported a fresh coat of paint. A new water cooler appeared in the intake room. In the days before the inspection in December 2025, Kordia — who had been held at the Texas ICE facility for nine months at that point — said she observed a dramatic transformation. A sub-agency of ICE, the Office of Detention Oversight (ODO) is required to inspect detention facilities like Prairieland, making sure conditions are safe and align with detention standards. If a facility gets a failing inspection grade twice in a row, its contract with ICE is supposed to be defunded and terminated.

Immigration Jails Have Had Hundreds Of Hunger Strikes

August 8, 2026 Victoria Valenzuela, Truthout. Resist! Detention Centers, Human Rights, Hunger Strikes, Immigrant Rights

When Dilmer “Loba” Lovos Mendez learned about the protests inside the Dilley Detention Center in Texas, they were not surprised. While being held for two years in California immigration jails from 2024 to 2026, Lovos Mendez had seen firsthand how common such organized acts of resistance actually are, and was themself directly involved with three protest actions during that time. During two hunger strikes, one of which had up to 100 participants, as well as sit-ins that lasted two weeks in September 2025, Lovos Mendez worked with other people inside immigrant jails to protest medical neglect and terrible conditions including rotten food and undrinkable water.

Inside The Longest Refugee Protest In History

August 2, 2026 Matt Benson, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! Human Rights, Refugees, Sit-In, United Nations, Western Sahara

Agadez, Niger — On any given day, you will find a group of up to 1,000 people, including women, children, the elderly and people with disabilities, standing in the Sahara Desert, eight miles from the nearest town, holding signs that read “We don’t want to stay here,” “Refugees in the desert without protection” and “We don’t feel safe here.” Since Sept. 22, 2024, they have maintained a daily sit-in at the humanitarian center where they are being held. At nearly two years, it has become one of the longest continuous refugee-led protests in history — and almost no one knows about it.

The Invisible Weapon: Sanctions, Overcompliance, And The Human Cost

July 19, 2026 Carmen Navas Reyes, BreakThrough News. Educate! Collective Punishment, Economic crisis, Human Rights, US Sanctions, Venezuela

The fear of Unilateral Coercive Measures, or sanctions, is not unfounded. For example: since 2018, the Office of Foreign Assets Control has imposed sanctions against Iran’s use of cryptocurrencies; the decentralized nature of the blockchain no longer offers any immunity. Any exchange or virtual asset service provider with any connection to the United States – whether by being incorporated there, having US customers, or processing transactions in dollars – is required to block transactions, verify IP addresses, and report frozen assets, under threat of multimillion-dollar fines and exclusion from the dollar-based financial system; the same happened with the Petro in the Venezuelan case.

‘We Keep Us Safe’: The Fight For Human Rights In Binghamton

July 17, 2026 Rob Warzyniak, People's World. Resist! Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, New York (NY)

Two years ago, when Jasmine Stradford and her partner, along with their three kids, fell behind on their rent, the landlord evicted them. The family was now at the mercy of New York’s emergency shelter system and what little it had to offer. The emergency shelter system was designed to provide not only shelter, but also food, help finding permanent housing, and child care so parents can find work, go to school, or look for housing. They received almost none of that. The Stradford family was one of many in the growing trend involving homeless people in New York who live outside the city, pushing people in need of shelter into hotels.

Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center

July 13, 2026 Alexis Sterling, Nation of Change. Educate! Detention Centers, Human Rights, ICE, Immigrants

A new investigation into Camp East Montana, the largest immigration detention facility in the United States, is bringing renewed scrutiny to a sprawling tent complex on the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas, where people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have reported medical neglect, abuse, isolation, disease outbreaks, and barriers to legal help. The New Yorker reported Monday that the Trump administration chose Fort Bliss last summer as the site of a 5,000-bed detention center built to support its mass deportation agenda. The facility, called Camp East Montana, opened in August 2025 after an expedited federal contracting process and quickly became a central piece of the administration’s expanded detention system.

Despite US’ Backdoor ‘Diplomacy’, UNGA Once Again Heard Condemnations Of US Blockade On Cuba

July 11, 2026 Pablo Meriguet, BreakThrough News. Resist! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Human Rights, United Nations

Last week, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez announced that the island nation was bringing a pressing debate to the floor of the United Nations General Assembly. Cuba proposed that a debate be opened so that the world could have a better sense of the crippling impacts of the energy blockade on the island that the US has de-facto imposed beginning in December and then formally imposed through presidential decree in late January. The prohibition on the export of fuel to Cuba has provoked a serious energy, economic, and humanitarian crisis on the island.

Spain Blacklists Palantir Over Domestic Security Concerns

July 3, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Human Rights, Palantir, Spain, Surveillance

Spain's government launched a blacklist of CIA-backed Palantir Technologies from public and private state-controlled entities, Spanish media reported on 1 July. The Spanish Prime Minister's Office issued directives to companies under the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI) to cease future contracting due to security concerns and worries regarding the vulnerability of sensitive state data. The ban targets organizations handling high-level communications and military intelligence, including Indra, Telefonica, and the shipbuilder Navantia.

Native American Tribes Secured Their Rights To Colorado River Water

June 29, 2026 Mark Olalde, Alex Hager and Sharon Chischilly, Pro Publica. Educate! Human Rights, Infrastructure, Native Americans, Southwest, Water

A deal to bring Colorado River water to Native American communities in northern Arizona, where a third of homes lack running water, is being blocked by neighboring states, caught up in a broader battle over how to divide the dwindling river. The largest tribal water rights settlement in U.S. history — the product of decades of negotiations to secure water for the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe and San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe — was on the verge of being realized before Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming stepped in to oppose it being codified by Congress.

Venezuela To Present Report On US Blockade Impact To The UN

June 27, 2026 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Human Rights, United Nations, US Sanctions, Venezuela

The Venezuelan State will focus on demonstrating the impact of unilateral coercive measures on its people in the 4th cycle of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights. With the aim of strengthening institutional capacities in preparation for the presentation of their upcoming human rights report for the 4th UPR in January 2027, a delegation of representatives from Venezuelan State institutions participated in an online preparatory workshop, facilitated by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Euro-Med Monitor Closes Offices In Gaza After Threats

June 21, 2026 Charlie Jaay, The Canary. Educate! Euro-Med Monitor, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Violence

After 15 years of carrying out essential fieldwork in the Strip, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) has closed its Gaza office. The decision was taken as a precautionary measure, in response to recent Israeli occupation threats, smear campaigns, and actions targeting the organisation and its staff. Maha Hussaini, Euro-Med Monitor’s head of media, manages the Gaza office. Herself and her Gaza team have received threats, including death threats via social media and phone calls. There have also been multiple hacking attempts of Euro-Med Monitor’s website.

Red Ribbons Event Highlights Crisis Facing Palestinian Hostages

June 20, 2026 Middle East Monitor. Resist! Human Rights, International Solidarity, Palestininans, Prisons, Torture, United Kingdom (UK)

London – Emotional testimonies, legal arguments, and political interventions marked a high-profile solidarity event held at SOAS University of London on Friday evening, as speakers warned that the situation of Palestinian hostages held in Israeli detention has reached what they described as “unprecedented levels of brutality” amid the ongoing war on Gaza. The event, organised by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) in partnership with the Red Ribbons Campaign, brought together campaign coordinator Adnan Hmidan, ICJP director Tayb Ali, lawyer Khaled Mahajneh, Palestinian activist Saif Abu Keshek, campaigner Katrina Graham, and Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn.

Women Join Hunger And Labor Strike At Delaney Hall ICE Jail

June 16, 2026 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. Resist! Delaney Hall, Detention, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, ICE, Women

Nearly 40 women have joined the hunger strike at Delaney Hall immigrant jail in Newark, New Jersey, releasing a new set of gender-specific demands as the strike enters its fourth week. On June 11, dozens of women detained in unit 1 of the jail announced that they were joining the hunger strike. Their demands include improving conditions in the facility; the release of female detainees, beginning with those who are under 21 years old, mothers, and women with medical conditions; and the firing of a guard who they say has sexually assaulted at least 10 women detained in the facility.

California Town Lets Private ICE Detention Centers Police Themselves

June 16, 2026 Robin Urevich, Scheer Post. Educate! California, Detention Centers, Human Rights, ICE, Police, Private Prisons

Two years ago, immigration attorney Mario Valenzuela visited a client at the Golden State Annex, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center operated by the private prison giant The GEO Group Inc. in the small agricultural town of McFarland in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Valenzuela’s client had a black eye and bruises on his body, he said. The client told Valenzuela that he’d been surrounded and beaten by seven or eight fellow detainees in the detention center’s recreation yard and was taken to a hospital emergency room. His client, who didn’t authorize his attorney to give his name, wanted to report the assault to the police, Valenzuela said.

International Tribunal Accuses Canada Of ‘Genocide’ Against Indigenous Peoples

June 14, 2026 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Accountability, Canada, Human Rights, Indigenous Sovereignty, People's Tribunal

An international human rights tribunal has concluded that Canada committed genocide and crimes against humanity against Indigenous Peoples through its residential school system and related colonial policies. The preliminary findings were released Friday by the 57th session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT), an independent international opinion tribunal that spent a week hearing testimony from residential school survivors, legal experts, researchers and Indigenous advocates in Montreal. The tribunal, which focused primarily on missing Indigenous children and unmarked graves linked to Canada’s residential school system, moved beyond the language of “cultural genocide” that dominated earlier public debate in Canada, finding that evidence presented during the hearings demonstrated a pattern of conduct that constituted “genocide” under international law.

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