It's easy to walk away from our ideological adversaries for fear of losing in the UN Human Rights Council. But fighting and winning on human rights is a far more appropriate role for the United States in the world.
It's easy to walk away from our ideological adversaries for fear of losing in the UN Human Rights Council. But fighting and winning on human rights is a far more appropriate role for the United States in the world.
Doesn't it make sense that if we are treating an animal cruelly or hurting it in some way, that it's a reflection of how we are treating each other?
Eight years before Stonewall, Frank Kameny's petition laid out the argument for gay civil equality, not in the streets, but in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Momentum is growing in several states to classify fetuses as human beings. I assume this is due to a fervent desire to help the natally challenged an...
As a result of the Mexican government's failure to protect its citizens from expanding organized crime, Freedom House's 2011 survey downgrades Mexico from Free to Partly Free.
Many are questioning why the Obama administration is covertly pushing for Bangladesh to reverse course and acquiesce to an internationally condemned open-pit mine that will displace an estimated 100,000-200,000 villagers.
Uganda is one of 83 countries where homosexuality is criminalized. If a proposed bill were to pass, it would become the eighth country where it is punishable by death.
CORE spokesman Niger Innis should not find it absurd or insulting that workers and community allies around this country will stand up on April 4, 2011...
I hope we can avoid a tired debate over whether Libya is Viet Nam or Iraq or Bosnia. Libya is Libya. But that doesn't mean we escape the ironclad fact that we learn from history or risk repeating it.
For Haiti, it might not matter who wins the presidency, but how the new president will address the mammoth challenges facing the nation.
If successful, insurance bans may be more devastating to women's reproductive health care than the hundreds of state laws that mandate counseling, forced delays, and bans on specific procedures.
I hope that 2011 will generate profound discussions regarding the challenges facing people of African descent and provide a multiplicity of fora where innovative proposals and solutions to face up to these challenges can be found.
It looks like the civil rights movement has not become a relic of the past after all. It's just taking a different shape. Instead of primarily helping people of color, it must now help those of all colors who need their rights protected by the government.
Obama's insistence that resolving the conflict over Israel's illegal settlements should be restricted to bilateral negotiations assumes symmetry in power and legality in the two sides that doesn't, in fact, exist.
Two centuries ago, news of revolution -- and revolution itself -- reverberated back and forth across the Atlantic at astonishing speed. The social media of the day? Word-of-mouth information, rumor, and opinion.
If the government was serious about meeting its human rights obligations, it would design spending that meets people's fundamental needs, such as education, housing, health care, and work.
It is a different story this time. Libya is not Iraq. The U.S. and West are getting it right this time. The Obama administration is taking a different...
A segment of the human rights community has lost sight of the original purpose of human rights advocacy. There is, however, a new organization that might be capable of resetting the moral compass.
Pushing the Administration to make good on its commitments to the world community will be critical -- and challenging. Will the Administration bring its commitments to bear at home?
Along came Miral and all the rules were broken. Because it involved Israel, and not nations with far more clout in the UN system, the protest fell on deaf ears.