Human Rights

Solidarity, Not Charity, End Jim Crow Recovery, Restore All Communities

August 27, 2025 Jaribu Hill, Black Agenda Report. Organize! Extreme weather, History, Human Rights, Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi

When I got the call, I was just leaving Magnolia Bar’s Summit at Tougaloo College. It was one of the courageous Ingalls Shipyard workers, whom I had the honor of representing in a race discrimination case. We were advised not to try to come back to the coast. Hurricane Katrina had touched down and the roads are blocked. Our clients packed up our hotel rooms and put our belongings in storage. What followed were harrowing calls and text messages, describing widespread loss of homes, deaths, evictions and injuries. The levies had broken! The sagging infrastructures gave way. Lives already hit hard from other storms and inequities, were once again embattled. It is no surprise that those who had very little to begin with, were the ones who were abandoned by the system.

Missing Links In Textbook History: The American Left Part III

August 27, 2025 Jim Mamer, Scheer Post. Educate! Civil Rights, History, Human Rights, Martin Luther King Jr, The Left

Is it not predictable that when segments of a population are harassed, marginalized and enslaved, they will eventually revolt? Does that not constitute a demand for justice? According to American historian Herbert Aptheker, in North America from the 1600s to the end of the Civil War, there were at least 250 revolts each involving at least 10 enslaved persons. The largest revolt of about 500 enslaved people took place in Louisiana in 1811. All of these rebels, widely cursed by those in power as threats, might better be remembered as America’s Black huddled masses, yearning to breathe free. Throughout American history episodes of racist violence intensified when African Americans — and other people of color — made legitimate claims to full citizenship. In the twentieth century, given the right conditions, any of those incidents should have triggered a renewed civil rights movement, but for a variety of reasons, most did not.

The Report On Human Rights Violations In The United States In 2024

August 20, 2025 State Council Information Office of The People's Republic of China, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Democracy, Human Rights, Report, United States

2024, as an election year in the United States, was a year of special concern that featured aggravating political strife and social division. Such a landscape offers an opportunity to review the state of human rights in the country in an intensive manner. Money controls U.S. politics, with partisan interests above voter rights. The total spending for the 2024 U.S. election cycle exceeded 15.9 billion U.S. dollars, once again setting a new record for the high cost of American political campaigns. Interest groups, operating in the "gray areas" beyond the effective reach of current U.S. campaign laws, used money to wantonly manipulate the fundamental logic and actual functioning of U.S. politics.

US Human Rights Report On Venezuela Doesn’t Pass The Mirror Test

August 19, 2025 Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Human Rights, incarceration, Venezuela

The US State Department’s latest Human Rights Report condemns Venezuela for serious abuses. Weaponizing human rights, accusations are selectively applied to serve a destabilization campaign. In this article, a mirror is held up to Uncle Sam to see how well “America the beautiful” holds up to the same charges, while also exposing the role of sanctions, compliant NGOs, and military threats in Washington’s hybrid war on Venezuela. The US report indicts Venezuela for “arbitrary or unlawful killings.” Meanwhile, in the land of the free, police killings hit a record high in in 2024. Impunity is high with charges brought against offending officers in fewer than 3% of cases. The FBI itself admits that transparency is hampered.

Under Health Communism, Care Is A Human Right

August 19, 2025 J. Patrick Patterson, In These Times. Create! Capitalism, Communism, Health Care, Human Rights

Advocates Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant say health communism isn’t about tweaking the current healthcare system but ending a system in which only those deemed “productive” or “deserving” are allowed to live well. Instead, care should be guaranteed to all — because we exist, not because we work. Under capitalism, care is often tied to productivity. But as Adler-Bolton and Vierkant argue in their book, Health Communism, that logic is the problem. Sickness, disability and aging aren’t anomalies; they’re part of being human. A truly humane health system, then, would not treat nonproductivity as a defect. Under the current system, many people — especially the chronically ill, disabled, elderly and institutionalized — are treated as “surplus populations,” expensive burdens to be managed. Health communism sees their liberation as central to the fight for justice.

Immigrants Detained For Days Without Beds, Showers, Medication In NYC

August 12, 2025 Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, Truthout Resist! Detention Center, Human Rights, ICE, New York City (NYC)

Civil rights groups are suing the Trump administration for detaining immigrants in a Manhattan federal courthouse where they are deprived of beds, showers, sufficient food, hygiene products, and medication. “In recent months, New York City has, almost daily, seen masked ICE agents separate people from their families and confine them in crowded, inhumane conditions within a makeshift detention facility inside 26 Federal Plaza in the middle of Manhattan,” Harold Solis, co-legal director of Make the Road New York, said in a statement. Make the Road New York filed the suit, along with the ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU).

Human Rights Obligations At Canadian Embassies Dead On Arrival

August 1, 2025 Lital Khaikin, Rabble. Educate! Activism, Canada, Colombia, Exploitation, Human Rights, Mexico, Mining

Over the winter, hundreds of demonstrators in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia denounced a Canadian gold mine owned by Aris Mining in the eastern Andean wetlands. They were rallied by the Comité Santurbán, a collective of activists protecting the vulnerable Santurbán watershed, known as a páramo, from industrial mining. Opposition has been ongoing for at least 16 years. But this past December, members of the Comité were designated by a group supporting the Canadian mine as “persona non grata.” In October, they were labelled as “enemies of progress in Santander” and accused of being responsible for “the deterioration of the country’s heritage”.

UN’s Top Court Rules ‘Clean, Healthy’ Environment Is A Human Right

July 25, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Environment, Human Rights, International Court of Justice (ICJ), United Nations

In a landmark finding, the United Nations’ top court on Wednesday issued an advisory opinion stating that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling supports the obligation of UN member states to tackle the climate crisis and outlines the consequences they could face if they fail to do so. “The consequences of climate change are severe and far-reaching: they affect both natural ecosystems and human populations. These consequences underscore the urgent and existential threat posed by climate change,” said ICJ president Yuji Iwasawa, as The Guardian reported.

Venezuela Opens Investigation Into Nayib Bukele Over Torture At CECOT

July 22, 2025 Telesur, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Accountability, CECOT, El Salvador, Human Rights, Nayib Bukele, Sexual Abuse, Torture, Venezuela

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab reported that the 252 Venezuelans previously held at the CECOT in El Salvador were systematically subjected to cruel human rights violations, including unlawful deprivation of liberty, daily torture, prolonged isolation without sunlight or ventilation, being shot with pellets, receiving rotten food and unsafe water, being denied medical care, and numerous due process violations. During a media appearance on Monday, July 21, the head of the Public Ministry announced the opening of a formal investigation, through three designated prosecutors, into Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Public Security Héctor Gustavo Villatoro, and Director General of Penitentiary Centers and Deputy Minister of Justice and Public Security Osiris Luna Mesa.

Venezuelans Expose Horrors Experienced In El Salvador Prison

July 20, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! CECOT, El Salvador, Human Rights, Nayib Bukele, Nicolas Maduro, Torture, Venezuela, Venezuelan migrants

“We drank the water with which we bathed because they did not give us drinking water,” said a Venezuelan migrant who was repatriated after having been illegally imprisoned in a high-security prison in El Salvador since March. on a repatriation plane on Friday, July 18. He returned on one of the two repatriation flights that brought back the 252 migrants to Venezuela on Friday, July 18. They had been deported from the US and imprisoned in the Confinement Center for Terrorism (CECOT) in El Salvador without due process. Their repatriation was finally possible due to intense diplomatic negotiations by Nicolás Maduro administration with the US authorities.

A New Chapter In Ecuador’s Anti-Mining Struggle

July 18, 2025 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. Resist! Ecuador, Human Rights, Mining, State Repression

Ecuador is a country that has developed a strong consciousness for environmental conservation throughout its history. Its constitution, approved in 2008, was a pioneer in the world in granting rights to nature. In 2021, more than 80% of the inhabitants of Cuenca, Ecuador’s third-largest city, voted in favor of banning mining there. In 2023, in a popular consultation, the Ecuadorian people demanded that the oil in the Amazonian Yasuní National Park be left in the ground. The inhabitants of the country’s capital, Quito, also voted against the exploration and exploitation of metallic minerals in the Andean Chocó area. Mention should also be made of the numerous struggles that Indigenous peoples have waged for decades against the destruction of nature by large mining and oil companies.

Venezuela Condemns Abduction Of 18 Minors By United States

July 1, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Children, El Salvador, Human Rights, Jorge Rodríguez, Kidnapping, US Imperialism, Venezuela

On Monday, June 30, Venezuelan United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) Deputy Jorge Rodríguez condemned the “kidnapping” of 18 minors in the United States. He showed photographs of several children who remain detained by the US government, despite formal requests for their liberation by Venezuelan authorities. Rodríguez demanded that the UN high commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, and the UN resident coordinator in Venezuela, Gianluca Rampolla del Tindaro, at least speak out on behalf of the 18 minors kidnapped in the US. He also demanded the release of the 252 Venezuelans in El Salvador, “held against their will, without the right to defense, without due process, and in clear violation of international law,” Rodríguez added.

Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Hunger Games

June 30, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Famine, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Israeli war crimes, Palestine, Starvation

Israel’s weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, the famine in southern Sudan that left a quarter of a million dead — I walked past the frail and skeletal corpses of families lining roadsides — and later during the war in Bosnia when Serbs cut off food supplies to enclaves such as Srebrencia and Goražde. Starvation was weaponized by the Ottoman Empire to decimate the Armenians. It was used to kill millions of Ukrainians in the Holodomor in 1932 and 1933.

Chris Hedges Report: Starvation And Profiteering In Gaza

June 26, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Israeli war crimes, Starvation

There is not much more that can be said about the unfathomable levels of devastation the genocide in Gaza has reached. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has been chronicling the genocide and joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to shed light on the current situation in Gaza, including parts from her upcoming report on the profiteers of the genocide. Israel’s siege on the Palestinians is leaving the population starving, and Albanese lambasts other nations for not stepping up and completing their obligations under international law.

Relatives Of Venezuelan Abductees Report Human Rights Violations At UN

June 25, 2025 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Alien Enemies Act, CECOT, El Salvador, Human Rights, Kidnapping, Nayib Bukele, Trump Administration, United Nations, Venezuela

Relatives of Venezuelan migrants detained in El Salvador for 100 days reported this Tuesday, June 24, to the Secretariat of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, on the violations of individual rights faced by the detained migrants. “We were received and heard individually and collectively, we presented our cases, 252 broken families, our relatives were violated and taken to a CECOT prison in an arbitrary manner, there was no notification, it was under deception, without due process,” declared Mairelys Cacique, who belongs to the committee of relatives of Venezuelan migrants detained in the Central American country.

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