Playing politics with a humanitarian catastrophe eats up resources and erodes the civil rights of everyone, regardless of status.
America’s War on Immigrants Hurts Its Poorest Citizens, Too
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CIVIL RIGHTS
Pashtun Lives Matter
In Pakistan, the police killing of a Pashtun social media star stirred a popular uprising for democracy and demilitarization.
The Life and Times of Michael B
Ferguson put America’s racial apartheid on the global stage.
Jordanian Women Who Marry Immigrants Denied Civil Rights
If they marry non-Jordanians, Jordanian women are only granted something called “services rights.”
Foreign Policy Thin-Sliced (12/26)
Show George W. Bush some love.
Beneath the Surface, China Simmers
Not long ago, Chinese authorities detained Xu Zhiyong, a prominent civil rights advocate, for “assembling a crowd to disrupt order in a public place,” despite the fact that he had been under house arrest for over three months. Although the incident comes as little...
Would MLK Back Iran’s Protesters?
Combine Iran’s post-election turmoil with the controversy over the nation’s nuclear advances, and few Americans are likely to be unsympathetic toward the opposition movement there. Some bloggers have even suggested that the reformist-led protests are inspired by the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. Several commentators have referred to the wave of anti-theocracy rallies as Iran’s "civil rights movement, perhaps implying that the social conservatives who rule the country resemble Mississippi fundamentalists.
Dude, Where Are My Rights?
Guantanamo, CIA secret prisons, and Abu Ghraib represent the first round of the Bush administration’s assault on constitutional guarantees. Now they’ve introduced Round Two with an attack on habeas corpus: the right to Âpresent one’s body before an impartial interlocutor to contest the basis for unexplained, secret, or wrongful incarceration. Habeas corpus is the oldest civil right in the western world and the foundation of constitutional democracy.