Human Rights

On International Working Women’s Day in 2025, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, read a poem she wrote highlighting the historic role played by Latin American women in the fight against imperialism. By Medea Benjamin and Michelle…

On the morning of Thursday, February 26, Columbia University student Elmina “Ellie” Aghayeva, originally from Azerbaijan, was arrested in New York by ICE agents who entered her off-campus residential building without a warrant. Columbia’s interim president, Claire Shipman, said security…

A report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international organization based in New York, reveals that 2025 was the deadliest year for the press in more than three decades. Two-thirds of the deaths occurred in Gaza. The figures…

On the morning of February 26, 2026, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., Francesca Albanese’s husband, acting on behalf of their minor daughter —a U.S. citizen— filed a lawsuit against President Donald…

Filipinos Commemorate the EDSA PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION, Now in its 40th YEAR February 25, 2026. The day ends a 4-day commemoration of the Edsa People Power Revolution, the four days of peaceful rallies and social protests that ended the Marcos…

We publish the collective interview with the New York group Cycling x Solidarity NYC , inspired by the similar group in Chicago. When was your group founded? We founded Cycling x Solidarity NYC in October 2025. I had come across an…

I recently watched an episode of The Graham Norton Show. Two actresses were asked to select a man from the audience. One chose a modest, kind-seeming bank employee who liked soccer. The other chose a sharply dressed man who openly…

We take from The Other 98% Facebook page an example of creative resistance to ICE violence. Chicago trolls Trump by naming a city snowplow “Abolish ICE” in the middle of a federal immigration crackdown. Chicago’s annual You Name a Snowplow…

As part of the activities carried out by the thematic roundtables on Internal development, Education, and Gender based violence within the framework of the World Humanist Forum, humanist activists launched a program on Valentine’s Day in the Kenyan maximum-security prison…

China has not waited for robotaxis to massively displace drivers before asking what to do with them. The expansion of autonomous driving in cities such as Wuhan, Shenzhen, or Beijing is not presented as an isolated experiment, but as an…