Human Rights – Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad!

The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East

December 10, 2018 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Imperial greed, Yemen

Photo: Yemen’s starving mothers — Ahmed Rashid Mokbel, a severely malnourished 7-month-old Yemeni boy, is given formula by his mother at the Al-Sadaqa Hospital in Aden, Yemen, in this Feb. 13, 2018. The boy weighed only 3.3 kg (7 pounds). The Al-Sadaqa Hospital treats malnourishment cases from across southern Yemen _ those that are lucky enough to get there. ~[…]

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70: Time to De-Colonize Human Rights!

December 5, 2018 UNAC Editor Human Rights, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Barka, published on Black Agenda Report, December 5, 2018 The post-WW II promise of human rights was a compact meant for white people only, but a People-Centered Human Rights framework seeks global liberation and transformation. “If human rights are to have any incredibility, any “universal” applicability, any value, they must be seized from the barbaric grip of European and[…]