Human Rights

“Scars on the land.”

March 4, 2025 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Conflict Over Water, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, War on the Earth, Zionism

by Cara Marianna, published on The Floutist’s Substack, February 25, 2025 25 FEBRUARY—Israeli tanks rolled on Sunday into jenin, the northernmost West Bank governorate, marking an escalation in the Zionist regime’s war of annexation against the West Bank. Mainstream media would have you believe this was the first time in 20 years tanks have deployed against Palestinian communities. In fact,[…]

Who Protects the People From the Human Rights Protectors?

March 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Black Liberation Movement, Europe, Genocide, Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Racism, Rights of Opressed Peoples, US Hypocrisy, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report,February 26, 2025 Can Palestinians get a little Humanitarian Intervention? Of all the ideological mystifications created by the white West to rationalize and justify its brutal exploitation and colonization of the world the last five hundred years, the cruelest hoax ever perpetrated on the colonized and the entire world is the idea that[…]

Trump’s Policies Intensify Haiti’s Catastrophes

March 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Haiti, Human Rights, Immigration, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Neocolonialism, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, February 28m 2025 Half of the population of Haiti — 5.4 million workers — don’t get enough to eat every day. According to the United Nations World Food Program, 2 million Haitians — the Internally Displaced People (IDP) driven from their homes by political violence — are facing extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition[…]

US Sends Dozens of Venezuelan Migrants to Guantánamo as Relatives Plead Innocence

February 28, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Human Rights, Immigrants, Indigenous peoples, Migrants and Refugees, Prisons and Prisoners

by Ricardo Vaz, published on Venezuelanalysis, February 15, 2025 Caracas, February 15, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The United States government has sent more than 100 Venezuelans to a US naval base with a history of human rights abuses in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to reports, the transfers began earlier this month as part of the Donald Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.[…]

Israel’s Holiday Village in Gaza: The Grotesque Reality behind the Genocide

January 4, 2025 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Racism, US Intervention

by Jeremy Salt, published on Palestine Chronicles, January 1, 2024 Israel’s latest actions in Gaza, from setting up a holiday village for soldiers to the destruction of hospitals, highlight a grotesque disconnection from human suffering. The real news of the day is not that the Israeli army has set up a holiday village for tired soldiers on the coast of[…]

White Settlers Bizarre Economic Strategy of Terrorizing Black People

January 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Human Rights, Racism, The War at Home, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Jon Jeter, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2024 Jordan Neely’s killing and the subsequent acquittal of Daniel Penny can be seen as part of the reactionary existential panic felt by whites whenever the country experiences growing economic instability and hardship. That jurors on Monday exonerated an ex-Marine for strangling an African American panhandler who was in mental[…]

The UN Must Use the “Uniting for Peace” Process to Stop Israel

October 22, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, Interview, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, United Nations

by Steven Sahiounie, published on MidEast Discourse, October 20, 2024 The international community is united in their condemnation of the actions of Israel upon the civilians in Gaza, with a death now well over 40,000, and the attacks on Lebanon which have killed and injured civilians who have no connection to Hezbollah. The UN General Assembly has voted for a[…]

Qumsiyeh: What You Can Do

October 4, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Genocide, Human Rights, Palestine

by Mazin Qumsiyeh, published on his Popular Resistance blog, ongoing…. Action without rational thought based on critical thinking can be dangerous, but rational thought and spoken words remain sterile without ACTION Before we address what can be done, we need to know the problem (provide accurate diagnosis) and then think of appropriate therapy and prognosis. We must think globally and[…]

An Open Letter to Dr. Jill Stein (Updated)

September 26, 2024 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Syria

by Syria Support Movement, published on Syria Support Movement Website, September 26, 2024 Editor’s Note: Nowhere is it suggested that Jill Stein is or is not overall the best candidate for president. This is an informational statement that is concerned with the Green Party Platform as described in the text. Disagreeing with a point, or stance is not an attack[…]

Takeover! A Human Rights Approach to Housing

September 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Civil Resistance, Economic Collapse, Human Rights, Poverty, The War at Home

TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing is a beautifully written book about poor and homeless people choosing to live and refusing to die. by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 11, 2024 I can’t recommend TAKEOVER! A Human Rights Approach to Housing, by Cheri Honkala and the Poor People’s Army, enough. Most people don’t like to think[…]