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Allies United Holds Cross‑Community Meetings to Protect Civil Rights Across Chicagoland  

The coalition is fostering collaboration, elevating local concerns, and uniting residents in efforts to safeguard the rights of marginalized groups. The post Allies United Holds Cr...

Hawaii Commissions launch civil rights awareness campaign- No Hate in the 808

Hawaii Commissions launch civil rights awareness campaign- No Hate in the 808

Global Voices for Peace: Defending Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights

Global Voices for Peace: Defending Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights rtewolde@afsc.org Thu, 04/16/2026 - 10:44 Or select from hosted files...

Hawaii Commissions launch civil rights awareness campaign: ‘No Hate in the 808’

Hele-On buses across the island will soon feature a new informational advertisement to educate residents about their civil rights and provide resources for those facing discriminat...

Rights Commission calls for tolerance following reports of violence, threats during Constitutional Amendment Bill public...

THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has called on authorities and stakeholders involved in the Constitutional Amendment Bill No.3 (CAB3) process to promote tolerance and pr...

Us and Them: The Curious Case of Rights and Personhood

Rights are seen as moral guarantees that protect individuals from harm and tyranny. The post Us and Them: The Curious Case of Rights and Personhood appeared first on The Good Men P...

Natural, Thus Universal, Human Rights

Casey Chalk, The Acton Institute It was admittedly a surprising circumstance for a debate on natural rights. On September 4 of last year, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) was speaking dur...

May 18, 2026

California Department of Justice finds conditions at ICE facilities inhumane; Second Circuit rejects race bias claim from Black and Hispanic social workers; FAA cuts air traffic co...

Attacks against national human rights institutes hinder protection of essential rights: UN

Attacks against national human rights institutions (NHRIs) weaken their ability to fulfill their mandates to protect human rights and hinder access to justice and accountability fo...

Global Voices for Peace: Defending Peace, Democracy and Human Rights

Global Voices for Peace: Defending Peace, Democracy and Human Rights etower@afsc.org Fri, 04/24/2026 - 15:49 Featured Image Image...

Amnesty International’s annual report warns global human rights under severe attack

Amnesty International warned in its annual report Monday that human rights around the world are under severe attack, creating “a global environment where primitive ferocity could f...

The Trump Administration’s Latest Attack On Civil Rights Groups Is A Call To Action 

Attacking civil rights groups like SPLC follows a pattern and practice of the administration’s revisionist terror and political prosecutions. We can’t afford to look away. 

‘Crimes against humanity’ and the fight for reparative justice

I recently traveled to Geneva to attend the fifth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, an advisory body to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations. A...

Zimbabwe: Over 5,000 People Affected By Human Rights Violations in March As Repression Mars Constitutional Amendment Bil...

[New Zimbabwe] Discover moreHealth community newsLegal advice servicesMobile news app subscriptionAT LEAST 5,013 people were affected by human rights violations in March, with a si...

The Civil Rights Inversion: Where Up is Down and Down is Up

That is the Republican mantra now.Ever since the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, Republicans have been chipping away at them through court cases like Shelby Cou...

The Rights of Black People Are Under Attack. Decent White People Need to Fight for Them.

The rights of people of color must be the hill we take and are willing to die on, lest our fragile, imperiled Republic dies instead. The post The Rights of Black People Are Under A...

Mutual Aid and Action Opportunities

During the history of advocacy and activism, Black-led spaces (including those led by Black women and femmes) have always healed, protected, fought, sacrificed, and more, for not o...

Zimbabwe: Human Rights Climate 'Deteriorating' in Zimbabwe, Monitoring Report Says

[263Chat] Zimbabwe recorded 145 human rights violations affecting more than 3,600 people in April, with political intimidation, arbitrary arrests and restrictions on freedoms of ex...

AFSC speaks out against federal indictment targeting civil rights group

AFSC speaks out against federal indictment targeting civil rights group lmullett@afsc.org Thu, 04/23/2026 - 08:15 Main content...

ATSS: Julius Nam, “Peacemaking in the Age of Iron, Clay, ICE, and Sanctuary Cities”

25 March 2026  | The U.S. Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service (CRS) was a civil rights conflict resolution agency created by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. CRS has also...

Podcast: Human rights activist Kerry Kennedy talks of her pursuit of equal justice

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert and Ethel Kennedy Center for Human Rights.

Growing Partisan Divide in U.S. Civil Rights Law

The increasing polarization of American politics has been a subject of extensive research, yet few studies have illuminated the tempo and texture of legislative support for civil r...

Florida’s Major Changes to Civil Rights Claim Filing Rules

On May 22, 2026, Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill (HB) 1407, which revises the procedural framework governing the commencement of civil actions and administrative remedies u...