by Common Dreams | Dec 26, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
Human rights defenders condemned Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and “extremist Republicans’ cruel values” after several busloads of migrants were dropped off outside U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washington, D.C. home in subfreezing temperatures...
by The Conversation | Dec 24, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
After 18 months, more than 1,200 interviews and 10 public hearings that presented 70 witnesses’ testimony, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack released its 845-page final report late on Dec. 22, 2022. The report recommended that the...
by The Conversation | Dec 20, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
After 18 months investigating, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol held its final public meeting on Dec. 19, 2022. The panel recommended that the U.S. Department of Justice bring criminal charges against former...
by ProPublica | Dec 19, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
On the last street before leaving Jacksonville, there’s a dark brick one-story building that the locals know as the school for “bad” kids. It’s actually a tiny public school for children with disabilities. It sits across the street from farmland and is 2 miles from...
by OtherWords — Institute for Policy Studies | Dec 18, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
Are state lawmakers free to ignore the results of a presidential election? Can they—in defiance of a state’s own constitution—design its congressional districts so a minority of voters pick a large majority of the state’s representatives? Can they discard voting rules...
by KFF Health News | Dec 15, 2022 | Human Rights & Justice
Almost every day, Dr. Eckart Rolshoven sees the long shadow of coal mining in his clinic near the big brownstone church that dominates this small town in Germany’s Saarland. The region’s last-operating coal shaft, just a few miles away, closed a decade ago, ending...