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The peace agreement was a key step, but ending the genocide demands bigger strides by the U.N. -- and the U.S.
By Jill Savitt
May 15, 2006
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China props up dictators and blocks sanctions in Africa. Is there a good side?
By Andrew Leonard
March 22, 2006
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Chapter 10: 19 digital video clips depicting possible detainee abuse.
March 14, 2006
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A look at investigations into Abu Ghraib; plus, other reports, legal documents and further reading about prisoner abuse and torture.
March 14, 2006
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Does applying the generic label of "genocide" to violence in Darfur make it even harder to stop the killing?
By G. Pascal Zachary
January 19, 2006
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At a Sudanese refugee camp, I witnessed the desperation behind the protests -- and eventual slaughter -- of African refugees in Egypt.
By David Morse
January 13, 2006
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A new report says women suffer disproportionately after hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes.
By Lynn Harris
December 14, 2005
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Is the U.S. above the Geneva Conventions? The debate over McCain's anti-torture bill is a sad moment for a country that once stood for human rights.
By Michael Ratner, with Sara Miles
November 10, 2005
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When pro-Israel attorney Alan Dershowitz learned that scholar and Israel critic Norman Finkelstein was writing a book that savaged him and his views, he tried to prevent its publication. Then things got really ugly.
By Gary Younge
August 12, 2005
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The administration's confused and negligent policy toward human rights abuses in Indonesia is not likely to change in the wake of the tsunami.
By Sidney Blumenthal
January 6, 2005
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If Bush truly believes religion is the "first freedom of the human soul," why isn't his administration pressuring countries that persecute people for their beliefs?
By Judd Legum
August 4, 2004
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On the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, blogs are booming in China. But are they making any difference?
By Mat Honan
June 4, 2004
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A farmer and peace activist from the American heartland talks about his frontline battle against human rights abuses in Iraq -- long before the world learned of Abu Ghraib.
By Jeff Horwitz
May 28, 2004
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The antiwar left shows a troubling indifference to the plight of Iraqis -- and flirts with irrelevance -- by demanding that President Bush bring the troops home now.
By Edward W. Lempinen
September 22, 2003
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As Iraq deteriorates, some born-again hawks like Christopher Hitchens are still waving their sabers -- but others are skulking toward the rear.
By Michelle Goldberg
September 22, 2003
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Arizona militia members, a Colorado Republican and a national group with white supremacist ties have made a remote stretch of the Mexico border a flash point for anti-immigrant hostility.
By Max Blumenthal
May 22, 2003
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The Arab street that once rallied for Iraq is strangely quiet, although anger and frustration sometimes boil up.
By Ferry Biedermann
February 7, 2003
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After two decades on the run from charges in a horrific murder, the counterculture icon is home and headed for trial. But in France, he's still a human rights hero.
By Neil Gordon
August 14, 2002
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DynCorp, a private military powerhouse, fired two employees who complained that colleagues were involved in Bosnian forced-prostitution rings. The employees went to court -- and won.
By Robert Capps
August 6, 2002
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In exchange for its support since Sept. 11, Egypt has received billions in international aid and diminished scrutiny of its human rights abuses.
By Issandr El Amrani
February 13, 2002
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National security is not justification for the suppression of human rights.
By Robert Scheer
November 21, 2001
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Human rights in China, Chechnya and elsewhere could be a casualty of the global war on terrorism.
By Sandip Roy
October 3, 2001
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Yugoslavia's former dictator will face war crimes charges in an unprecedented international trial.
By Laura Rozen
June 28, 2001
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America's ouster from the U.N. Human Rights Commission reveals the arrogant incompetence of Bush's vaunted "wise men."
By Joe Conason
May 8, 2001
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Thousands of protesters send out an SOS in Quebec: Governments are giving corporations free rein to negotiate a hemispheric trade pact.
By David Moberg
April 23, 2001
Is Darfur still doomed?
The new African queen: China
A problem from hell
Murder from Darfur to Cairo
"Caught in the Storm": The harsh toll of natural disasters on women
Wrong about rights
Dershowitz vs. Finkelstein
Persecuted for their faith -- and ignored by the U.S.
Little red blogs
Documenting torture
Iraq is not Vietnam
The crisis of the pro-war liberals
Vigilante injustice
Saddam stands alone
Ira Einhorn's long, strange trip
Milosevic goes to The Hague
Will free trade kill democracy?
Glenn Greenwald
War Room