Human Rights

The Western version of human rights has long dominated the global discourse, an inevitable outcome powered by pervasive cultural exports and hefty economic clout. But as developed nations champion rights issues while savaging less advanced countries on such pretexts, they…

In this show, we speak with Randy Credico, host of Live on the Fly: Assange  Countdown to Freedom on WBAI radio in NYC, about Julian Assange’s present situation and the future of the campaign for freedom.

February 02, 2023, Belize City, Belize – Today, more than 16 years after he was brought to Guantánamo Bay and almost a year after he completed a military commission sentence there, pursuant to a plea and cooperation agreement with U.S.…

Press Statement of Migrante International 01 February 2023–  President Bongbong Marcos’ show of sympathy with the family of slain Kuwait Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Jullebee Ranara is not enough. He should order a probe into Philippine embassy officials’ and recruitment…

On the 1st of February 2023, the UK came the closest it has come in a generation to a general strike as workers from across a wide range of sectors including education and transport walked out in protest regarding poor…

Nueva ola de ataques y asesinatos contra campesinos y defensores ambientales Tres dirigentes campesinos asesinados en menos de dos semanas, un conflicto producto de la expansión sin control del monocultivo de palma africana y de la minería que devasta territorios…

Let us not respond to the neocon attack on abortion with moral or moralising arguments. It is a right, and there is no need to justify it. Just expand it and defend it. By Vanesa Jiménez/ctxt Abortion is a woman’s…

On January 23rd the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, condemned the brutal murder of Thulani Maseko, a prominent human rights lawyer from Eswatini, gunned down at his home two days earlier. “Thulani Maseko was a staunch…

Yesterday Peru was the protagonist of an act of total pettiness and abuse of power; but minutes later, it was also the protagonist of thousands of acts of solidarity with our brothers in the south. Yes, yesterday, the government of…

Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, famed linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky and others gave testimony Friday at the Belmarsh Tribunal in Washington, D.C., calling on President Biden to drop charges against Julian Assange. The…