Wednesday, 20 May 2015 10:5 Last Friday afternoon in Mexico City, I was waiting for a friend, a dedicated human and civil rights activist for many years in Mexico. He was going to tell me about his work on an…
Like many cities in the South, New Orleans has a proud history of civil rights leadership—along with an equally grim history of civil rights violations. That history is repeating itself today. The African American community is again facing economic injustice…
There are tentative signs that the people of Ethiopia are beginning to organise themselves and stand up against the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) government, a brutal dictatorship, dressed in western democratic garb. After 23 years of suppression at…
The day after the court decisions were made, Attorney Mohammed al-Roken told The Associated Press the public prosecutor’s office confirmed President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s pardon of the five activists as the country celebrates its national day. …
Saudi women are divided about whether the country’s rulers should ease restrictive gender policies, but as Eman Al Nafjan writes in Foreign Policy, there are «hundreds, if not thousands, of Saudi women who are fighting for their rights,» whether…
In support of Chile’s ongoing student protests, and voicing their own demands, thousands of people took to the streets in more than a dozen cities in Latin America Thursday demanding quality public education. The Latin American March for Education…
Irom Sharmila vows to keep up her fast, now in its 11th year, to protest a law granting legal immunity to India’s armed forces. But Irom, who has a suitor, also dreams of a normal life, and love. Reporting…
A gay rights activist in Uganda, where a bill that would punish gays with prison or death has stirred worldwide outrage, received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in Washington on Thursday. Ethel Kennedy, the widow of the…
Fifty years ago they brought civil disobedience to the civil rights movement, and Saturday, they were honored for their bravery. Nearly a dozen Freedom Riders were honored Saturday night at the 38th Annual Freedom Fund Gala at the Renaissance…
