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11/13/2025

Under a deal between Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Texas state police force—consisting of some 5,000 officers—is being given the power to interrogate anyone suspected to be undocumented about their immigration status... Read moreTexas turn...

11/12/2025

Following another year of record temperatures and powerful storms, world leaders are gathering in Belém, Brazil, for the opening of the COP30 climate talks. But the leaders attending—notably, they do not include US President Donald Trump—will be confronted by a... Read moreAbsent Trump looms la...

11/11/2025

The word "ceasefire" seems like a misnomer for the situation in the Gaza Strip since Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal that was supposed to end two years of war a month ago. The Israeli military is still deployed... Read moreGaza and Lebanon: the ceasefires that aren’t

11/11/2025

Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez was assassinated during a Day of the Dead celebration in the main square of Uruapan, in the violence-torn Mexican state of Michoacán. He had been an outspoken opponent of the drug cartels and their reign... Read moreMexico: specter of US strikes amid cartel ter...

11/09/2025

The anarchist critique of Zohran Mamdani's election in the New York City mayoral race reminds us that "socialist faces in high places" do not bring fundamental change, and Gotham has seen mayors before elected on populist platforms only to capitulate... Read morePodcast: NYC turns up the volume!

11/08/2025

UN human rights experts raised concern over "repeated and systematic lethal attacks" by the US military against vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, which they said could constitute war crimes under international maritime law. Three UN special rapporteurs stated that... Read morePotential w...

11/05/2025

Advocacy groups in Illinois filed a class action lawsuit against US federal authorities over "inhumane" conditions at a Chicago-area Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, claiming violations of detainees' constitutional rights as well as federal regulations. The plaintiffs' lawyers—fro...

11/04/2025

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced that he will open the entire 1.56 million acres of the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas leasing. These lands are sacred to the Gwich'in Nation,... Read moreTrump opens entire ANWR Coastal Plain to drilling

11/03/2025

The Tunisian government ordered a prominent advocacy organization, the Tunisian Forum for Social & Economic Rights (FTDES), to suspend its activities for one month. The organization has been outspoken in its criticism of President Kais Saied's crackdown on Black African asylum... Read moreTunisia go...

11/02/2025

Throughout the 18-month siege of El Fasher, capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, international human rights observers had been warning that the city's residents faced a general massacre when it eventually fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Yet nothing... Read morePodcast: Darfur again —a ge...

11/01/2025

Protests have escalated in Tanzania following elections widely viewed as a sham. Violence erupted on polling day over the exclusion from the ballot of President Samia Suluhu Hassan's two biggest challengers, and increasing government repression. The protesters defied a heavy... Read morePost-elector...

10/31/2025

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern over the protests and repression that have swept Cameroon following contested presidential election results. Demonstrators immediately defied a ban on public gatherings to support the opposition after the election,... Read mor...

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