Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau Cuts City’s Ties With Israel Over ‘Crime of Apartheid’
"We cannot be silent," said Colau.
After 46 Years of Imprisonment, It’s Time to Free Leonard Peltier
Today marks Global Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier.
SOS Issued for Rohingya Refugees Desperately Adrift at Sea
"These are human beings—men, women, and children," said one U.N. expert. "We need to see the states in the region help save lives and not let people die."
Nobel Committee Gets Peace Prize Wrong Yet Again
The Nobel Peace Prize selection ignores a side of the war that saw even Amnesty International denounced for observing.
The Flaws in the “Assessment” Report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on China
By Alfred de Zayas / CounterPunch On 31 August 2022, the last day of Michelle Bachelet’s 4-year tenure as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office released a 46-page…
Deadly Games: The Labour Casualties of Qatar’s World Cup
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch A sordid enterprise, nasty, crude and needless. But the World Cup 2022 will be, should anyone bother watching it, stained by one of the highest…
Report: Amnesty International Describes Israel’s Cruel Apartheid Against Palestinians
On Tuesday, Amnesty International became the latest on a growing list of human rights organizations to explicitly call Israeli policies and actions against Palestinians "apartheid."