After a surge in killings of women in the Palestinian territories, women’s organizations are calling for an end to legal loopholes which allow men to exercise violence against female relatives with impunity. FSRN’s Lena...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s recent report on a request to mine uranium in South Dakota’s Black Hills isn’t going over well with Native Americans and non-Natives alike. As Jim Kent reports, both groups are...
In Brazil, the death of a working class woman, dragged by a police car has caused outrage amongst human rights organizations. President Dilma Rousseff took to Twitter to offer her condolences to the family...
On March 9th, the people of El Salvador went to the polls and elected former guerrilla Salvador Sanchez Ceren as President by a razor-thin margin. International observers declared the election “free and fair”, but...
Advocates for labels on all foods that contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are taking a state-by-state approach to legislation, hoping to avoid Congressional gridlock. Max Pringle reports from Sacramento, CA. Download Democratic US...
In the south African nation of Lesotho, known as the “‘Mountain Kingdom,” desertification and land degradation threaten farmers’ livelihoods. Many have migrated to more productive lands, or are struggling to make a living elsewhere....
A hunger strike that began 12 days ago in a privately-operated immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Washington has spread to another center in Conroe, Texas. Shannon Young reports. Download Just after midnight Monday morning,...
Advocates for immigration reform continued a series of actions today to demand that families separated by US immigration policies be reunited. Dozens of women and children who had been deported to Mexico, attempted to...
The United States and European Union imposed sanctions Monday on a handful of Russian and Ukrainian officials following the referendum that took place in Crimea on Sunday. More than 96 percent of Crimean voters supported uniting the...
More than a decade ago a leading Muslim human rights lawyer disappeared in Thailand. There has been little progress investigating his disappearance. Human rights activists and the International Commission of Jurists say Thailand needs...
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