Human Rights

‘Shock and awe’ war on migrants and prisoners

June 9, 2019 UNAC Editor Human Rights, India

Photo: Central American migrants turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol as they seek asylum after illegally crossing the Rio Grande near Penitas, Texas, on April 6, 2019.Loren Elliott / Reuters by Theresa Gutierrez, Published On Workers World, June 4, 2019 In 2003, during the genocidal and criminal U.S. war against Iraq, the term “shock and awe” was propagated. The[…]

Scoundrels and Reparations

May 31, 2019 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Racism, Reparations

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Consortium News, May 20, 2019 Reparations should not be a topic for national discussion until there is something akin to a consensus among black people about what to demand and how to do it. There is no question that black Americans deserve redress for 300 years of chattel slavery, Jim Crow segregation, racist terrorism, mass[…]

Philly DA withdraws appeal in Mumia Abu-Jamal case

May 5, 2019 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Political Prisoners

by Betsy Piette, from Workers World, April 17, 2019 April 17 — A major hurdle was cleared today for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal to win a new trial and freedom. The office of the Philadelphia District Attorney filed a notice that it was rescinding its appeal against Common Pleas Court Judge Leon Tucker’s decision granting Abu-Jamal new appellate rights. This[…]

The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies

February 27, 2019 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Racism, Revolution, Venezuela

2016 protests against removal of Chávez and Bolivar images from National Assembly. (Wikimedia) by John Pilger, Published on Consortium News, February 25, 2019 Travelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela. At a farming co-operative in Lara state, people waited patiently and with good humor in the heat. Jugs of water and melon juice were passed around. A guitar was[…]

Challenges Posed by the Green New Deal

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Climate Change, Environment, Human Rights, Socialism

In November, members of the Sunrise Movement, joined by newly elected Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, sat in at Rep. Pelosi’s office to demand a Green New Deal (Photo: Sunrise Movement) By Kamran Nayeri, from Socialist Action, January 16, 2019 The fanfare about the UN Conference of Parties (COP) 24 in Katowice, located in a coal-mining region in Poland, that the diplomats from[…]

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[…]