Tag: human rights

California’s law limits the authority of state and local law enforcers to communicate with federal immigration authorities, and prevents officers from questioning or holding people depending on their immigration status or immigration violations.

Why is it that before every sporting event we have not only the national anthem, but honor guards and giant flags spread across the field of play?

The organizers, activists, artists, writers, athletes, judges and occasional elected officials who fought to make the United States a more humane and inclusive country often go unacknowledged.

Another round of punitive disruption-for-disruption-sake Trumpism – except for the innocence of the targets. DACA children, brought into the only country they know, are now reduced to ideological bargaining chips to distract from endless failures. Trump populism? Little more than an unfeeling tyranny of the shrinking minority.

Although Payne has been suspended from the department’s blood draw program, the abusive detective remains on active duty while under internal investigation.

Movement-building approaches from the civil rights era get a 2017 update.

The world is changing far too quickly for people to get used to it, and the rate of expansion isn’t slowing down. No one can keep track, at least not alone.

Whether it’s politics, economy, healthcare, social issues or foreign policy, Americans are extremely divided on what to do, even though they agree that the system is broken.

Human trafficking is one of the hidden violations of the human rights of hundreds of thousands of people.

Asian indigenous peoples face discrimination and marginalization, heavy assimilation pressure and violent repression by state security forces.