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Trans People Shouldn’t Be Scapegoated for Democrats’ Failures

Politicians and pundits are stoking a backlash to trans rights in the wake of the election. They’re playing a dangerous game.

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US withdrawal from UN human rights body draws mixed reactions

Human rights experts in Washington are divided over whether the U.S. withdrawal from a United Nations body on human rights will hurt North Korea’s...

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UN rights office estimates up to 1,400 killed in crackdown on protests in Bangladesh

The U.N. human rights office on Wednesday estimated that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks last summer in a...

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Days Before Convention, Activists Sue Police Over Violence at DNC Headquarters Protest

It’s been nine months since police brutalized protesters demonstrating against the war in Gaza outside the Washington headquarters of the...

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Fury as paedophile allowed to STAY in the UK despite lying about a child sex conviction...

A PAEDO has been allowed to move to the UK even after he lied about a child sex conviction — because stopping him would violate his human rights....

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Jimmy Carter’s Improbable Road to the Presidency

The Southern president, who kept his head down directly following Brown v. Board of Education, would eventually declare that “the time for...

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A Myanmar online news site says its jailed journalist is tortured for revealing abuses of prisoners

An independent online news agency in Myanmar said Friday that one of its journalists arrested two years ago has been subjected to daily physical and...

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ACLU Leadership Rejects Staff Demands to Condemn U.S. Role in Israel’s Gaza War

Staffers at the American Civil Liberties Union began to circulate an internal petition earlier this year urging its leadership to take a public...

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Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance

Google published principles in 2018 barring its AI technology from being used for sensitive purposes. Weeks into President Donald Trump’s second...

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Hammer of Civil Rights

“Exactly one hundred years after Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation for them, Negroes wrote their own document of freedom in their...

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