THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — The “Conversation with Angela Davis” at the Boutwell culminated a series of daylong activities for Davis. […read more]
ATLANTA VOICE — Even after his death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is undeniably one of the most notable leaders for civil and human rights. […read more]
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — As the economy in Zimbabwe headed into freefall in December, an 11th hour request from Harare for a rescue loan was refused by its longtime ally, South Africa. […read more]
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CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — This week, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty joined the close to 190,000 other commenters in submitting a comment opposing the proposed “public charge rule”. […read more]
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EAST TEXAS REVIEW — In Colorado, long-term solitary confinement used to be a tool that was regularly used in corrections. The problem is that it was not corrective at all. It was indiscriminate punishment that too often amounted to torture and did not make anyone safer. […read more]
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CHICAGO CRUSADER — Dr. Cornell West is scheduled to address the Chicago State University campus community on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 3 p.m. […read more]
(Mondoweiss) – Reverend Graylan Hagler, a veteran social and economic justice activist and outspoken supporter of Palestinian human rights, was invited by the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School and the Rochester, NY chapter of Friends of Sabeel – North America to speak about Palestine on September Read More
Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police have carried out extra-judicial killings, torture and forced disappearances of suspected extremists, according to allegations in a new report by a Kenyan rights organization. The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, which is funded by the government, Read More
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Julian Bond, a founding member and communications director of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and immediate past board chairman of the NAACP, is being praised for his lifelong human rights contributions by people ranging from Read More
GERARD NZOHABONA, Associated Press BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — A leading rights activist in Burundi was shot and wounded late Monday by unknown assailants in the capital, Bujumbura, a civic leader said. Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, president of The Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Read More
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The United Nations Human Rights Committee has given the U.S. a series of failing grades on human rights, including failing to meet international human rights standards on gun violence; the uneven implementation of controversial Stand Your Read More
CARLEY PETESCH, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Extortion at security checkpoints is costing Ivory Coast millions each year despite government steps to eradicate the practice, a rights group said Wednesday. Four years after Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara’s government said it would stop security Read More
(Africland Post) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is also the African Union (AU) chair, says Africa must establish its own International Criminal Court (ICC) which would be mandated to prosecute Western leaders who have committed crimes on the continent. According to the state-owned Chronicle newspaper, Mugabe Read More
ESAM MOHAMED, Associated Press BRIAN ROHAN, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi’s son and onetime heir apparent was convicted and sentenced to death on Tuesday by a court in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on charges of murder and inciting genocide during the country’s Read More
(BBC) – A leading rights group has called for the release of at least 13 people, including a rapper and an academic, held in Angola for allegedly plotting to oust the president. The detentions were a “ploy to suppress dissenting voices”, Amnesty International said. The group Read More
JASON PATINKIN, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese troops committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity by killing and raping civilians during an offensive in rebel-held parts of the country’s Unity State, an international human rights group said Wednesday. The South Read More
(BBC) – South Sudan’s army and allied militias “abducted, torched and gang-raped girls” during fighting against rebel forces, a UN report says. Investigators found that at least 172 women and girls were abducted and subjected to sexual violence, it added. One woman was “dragged out Read More
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A Dominican Republic court order threatens to force more than 200,000 Dominican-born Haitians from their homes in an effort that many human rights watchers have called modern-day ethnic cleansing. Just days after the Rachel Dolezal Read More
BEIJING (AP) — Racial discrimination and police abuses are rife in the United States, China’s Cabinet said Friday, in a report intended as a counterpoint to U.S. criticism of Beijing’s own human rights record. The report issued by the State Council Information Office cited Read More
MICHELLE FAUL, Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A child forced to marry at just 13 who then poisoned her 35-year-old husband and three friends is set to be freed in Nigeria, lawyers and a judge said Wednesday, amid fears for her safety and future. Read More
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s mishandling of child sexual abuse claims against French soldiers has human rights staffers fearing for their jobs as they struggle with how to respond to highly sensitive allegations in the future, according to a letter Read More
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray is neither the first, nor will he be the last person to die in police custody. According to a 2011 report from the Department of Justice, 4,813 people died in police custody between 2003 and 2009 (the Read More
Carl Gibson, THINK PROGRESS BALTIMORE, Md. (ThinkProgress.com)—Starting this week, 25,000 households in Baltimore will suddenly lose their access to water for owing bills of $250 or more, with very little notice given and no public hearings. Rita, a renter in Southeast Baltimore who asked Read More
TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Decades of conflict and discrimination have left people with disabilities in Somalia vulnerable to forced marriage, violence and rape among other abuses, an international human rights group said Thursday Amnesty International called on the Somali Federal Government Read More
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network (GIN) – After a published plea from Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan for U.S. combat troops in the fight against Boko Haram, U.S. Africa Command appears ready to sweep aside its hesitation and jump in with both Read More
CARA ANNA, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sudanese army troops raped at least 221 women and girls in a Darfur village in a series of organized, house-to-house attacks last year, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday. The organization’s Africa director, Daniel Read More
FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press MAZOWE, Zimbabwe (AP) — In 2000, Timon Shava was a hero of Zimbabwe’s land reform program when he joined hundreds of other landless peasants in a wave of land seizures and evictions of white farmers. Today, he is homeless after police, Read More
TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police Monday tear-gassed schoolchildren demonstrating against the removal of their school’s playground, which has been allegedly grabbed by a powerful politician, said a Kenyan human rights activist. The students from Langata Road Primary School were in Read More
Tom Odula, ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police Monday tear-gassed schoolchildren demonstrating against the removal of their school’s playground, which has been allegedly grabbed by a powerful politician, said a Kenyan human rights activist. The students from Langata Road Primary School were Read More
BEIJING (AP) — China says it will cease transplanting organs taken from executed prisoners on Jan. 1 in response to human rights concerns, although uncertainties linger over where a replacement supply will come from, state media reported Thursday. China has previously said it would Read More
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA)—The fight for justice in Ferguson has gone global. Tara Thompson, a corporate project manager who has been protesting and organizing in Ferguson since the summer, puts it this way: “It is unbelievable that I am staring down at Read More
BERLIN (AP) — Four human rights groups have released a tool that lets users check whether their computer has been infected with surveillance software. Amnesty International says the tool released Thursday, called Detekt, is designed for right activists and journalists but will be freely Read More
Lynsey Chutel, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Namibia’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that health workers sterilized HIV-positive women without their consent, a human rights group said Monday. The 2012 judgment that was upheld had found that health workers had coerced three HIV-positive mothers Read More
BEIJING (New York Times) — Chinese companies, some of them state-owned, are profiting from the production and export of law enforcement equipment that can be used for torture, fueling human rights abuses in Africa and Asia, two international human rights organizations said in a report Read More
Special to the NNPA from The New York Amsterdam News (The New York Amsterdam News)—Approximately 500 refugees are feared dead after their vessel was rammed by traffickers in icy Mediterranean waters, according to two Palestinians who survived the ordeal. The boat had been carrying Syrians, Read More
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Twenty years after signing the “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,” the United States continues to struggle with racial disparities in every major sector of American society. A coalition of American Read More
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.N. Security Council could impose sanctions on leaders in South Sudan if gross violations of human rights continue to be carried out, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday during a visit to the Read More
SYLVIE CORBET, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Council of Europe is taking new steps to combat violence against women under a newly ratified convention that comes into force Friday. Fourteen European states are committing themselves to better fight violence against women following the signature Read More
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer Human rights and gay rights activists on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to ensure that the issue of anti-gay discrimination in Africa is on the agenda at next week’s summit in Washington with more than 40 African leaders. The Human Read More
By Stan Washington Special to the NNPA from The Atlanta Voice On the top floor is the section focusing on the struggle for human rights across the world. (SW/AV) (NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS: 100 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd., Atlanta; www.civilandhumanrights.org, 678-999-8990. Open Read More
GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A court in eastern China on Thursday sentenced to up to 6 ½ years in prison three activists who were part of a nascent civil rights movement that has urged government officials to publicly disclose their assets. The Read More
(Bloomberg) – East African nations threatened to impose sanctions on South Sudan’s warring sides unless they resolve their differences peacefully and end “flagrant violations” of three agreements to end hostilities. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a seven nation bloc, accused South Sudan’s government and rebel forces Read More
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — New fighting broke out in South Sudan on Sunday less than 48 hours after the country’s president and the rebel leader agreed to a cease-fire that the U.S. secretary of state and U.N. secretary-general both worked to Read More
LARA JAKES, AP National Security Writer JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Confronting global fears of genocide, South Sudan’s president tentatively agreed Friday to revitalize peace talks that have been stalled for months, taking what the U.S. described as a necessary step toward creating a new Read More
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 1 million people in South Sudan have fled their homes at a crucial time of the year: planting season. Famine, aid officials say, could be the result, and the U.N.’s top official for human Read More
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The rainy season is about to start in South Sudan, but war in the world’s newest country has forced more than 1 million people to flee their homes, leaving few people to plant or harvest crops. The Read More
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the Malaysian government to improve its human rights record and appealed to Southeast Asia’s teeming youth population to stand up for the rights of minorities and the rule Read More
(CNN) — China and North Korea have slammed a U.N. report that found crimes against humanity committed in the reclusive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. At the Monday session of the Human Rights Council, China’s representative called a landmark report that was highly critical of North Read More
JUERGEN BAETZ, Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe is set to upgrade its ties with Cuba in a bid to broaden economic cooperation and demand more progress on respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms, a senior European Union official said Thursday. The 28-nation bloc’s foreign Read More
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rebels in Central African Republic decimated a mostly Christian village earlier this month, burning down dozens of homes, after demanding fuel and money from a nearby Muslim community to attack “the enemy,” an international human rights group Read More
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president lashed out at criticisms of his nation’s human rights record, saying Thursday that the government deals with any complaints of abuses committed during or after its bloody 27-year civil war. Pro-government protesters, meanwhile, Read More
PAUL LOGOTHETIS, AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Spain’s national team will travel to Equatorial Guinea for a friendly game, and the country’s football federation won’t say why. The decision to play in the former Spanish colony has drawn the ire of the country’s opposition Read More
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