Our April issue featured stories on the militarization of the Mexican border, the need for a general amnesty for undocumented immigrants, and the opportunity represented by the financial crisis to reboot America for the post-petroleum age. Our multiple-choice April Exit… Read moreOur readers write: How rad is Obama’s agenda?
Mauritanian exile and refugee organizations are calling for an independent commission to investigate the crimes of former dictator Maouya Ould Taya before scheduled elections go ahead in June.
Extradited and convicted paramilitary warlord “Don Berna” wants a commission of Colombian congressmen to visit him in his US prison to continue his collaboration with Colombian justice.
The local Good Government Junta (JBG) of the Zapatista rebels at Morelia, in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas, issued a statement April 23 charging that Gov. Juan Sabines Guerrero “is determined to be a humiliating repressor who does not respect… Read moreChiapas: Zapatistas protest renewed repression
Two new reports charge Mexican and other Latino migrants continue facing a host of human rights violations and labor abuses in Canada and the United States.
Members of the Piedras Negras police force in the Mexican border state of Coahuila staged an overnight strike to protest the new policies of an ex-colonel who assumed command of the force.
Kichua and Arabela tribesmen are blockading one of the Amazon’s main tributaries, the RÃo Napo, to protest the violation of their land rights by oil companies and Peru’s government.
The co-educational schools that the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) runs for Afghan refugees in Pakistan are under attack from Pakistan’s new Taliban movement.
A Sudanese court sentenced 11 members of Darfur’s rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death by hanging in relation to last year’s attack on Khartoum.
The trial opened this week in China’s Sichuan province for Phurbu Tsering Rinpoche, a respected Tibetan lama who faces 15 years in prison on a weapons possession charge.
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected a lawsuit by four British ex-Guantánamo detainees against former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials.
A federal judge in Washington DC adopted a new standard for authorizing and reviewing the detention of terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay proffered by the Justice Department last month.
