She Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges.
May 13, 2026 | Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too.
Articles by Fred Abrahams
Court Philosophers in the Age of Multipolarism
September 26, 2025 | Olavo de Carvalho and Aleksandr Dugin attack liberalism from opposite corners.
Small Island States Are Leading the Fight Against Climate Change
April 17, 2025 | The canaries are banding together to warn about conditions in the coal mine and do something about it.
Anti-Immigrant Legislation Doesn’t Serve Anyone But Prison Contractors
January 15, 2025 | The Laken Riley Act is an assault on due process, undermining all of our rights to make for-profit prison CEOs richer.
The Maldives: The Future of Climate Change
January 7, 2025 | Small island states are the canaries in the coal mine.
Stamps Capture Unchanging Face of U.S. Violence Abroad
January 6, 2025 | Countries have also used their postal systems to fight back against aggression.
Nine Years After Bahrain’s Uprising, Its Human Rights Crisis Has Only Worsened
February 24, 2020 | Despite well documented abuses in the kingdom, the spigot of aid and arms from the U.S. and U.K. remains open.
From Schools to Shelters in Iraq
September 9, 2014 | Yazidi refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan now sleep in classrooms, hallways, and the courtyards of facilities intended for children’s education. What happens when school starts?
Land ‘investment’ deals in Africa: Say ‘no way!’
July 12, 2011 | Land investments - the purchase or lease of vast tracts of land from mostly poor, developing countries by wealthier food-insecure nations and private investors for the production and export of food and agrofuel crops - have become a very fast-paced international phenomenon.