Last week a UN special rapporteur on racism offered recommendations to the United States to address ongoing issues of racial discrimination, including the treatment of Katrina survivors. More...
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Results tagged “human rights”
Scholar-activist Aviva Chomsky recently traveled to Kentucky and Colombia as part of a Witness for Peace delegation to understand the coal mining's impact on local communities. In a conversation with independent journalist Hans Bennett, she discusses the challenges facing organizers in those areas, where big corporations are exploiting the marginalized. More...
Following protests from human rights and housing advocates, the Biloxi City Council voted unanimously this week to give FEMA trailer residents another six months to find permanent housing. More...
President Barack Obama decided to allow people still living in FEMA trailers to remain there while the federal government helps them find permanent housing, but the city of Biloxi, Miss. plans to kick them out. More...
Drummond Co. is facing a third lawsuit alleging serious human rights abuses at its South American mining operations. Will Congress keep the widespread anti-union terrorism in mind when it considers a free trade deal with Colombia later this year? More...
A federal appeals court has ruled that the insurance carrier for CACI International of Virginia is not obligated to defend the company, which is facing lawsuits alleging torture of prisoners in Iraq. Perhaps it could finance any payouts with the hundreds of millions of dollars in new contracts it got from the U.S. government this year alone? More...
The civil action against CACI International over its interrogations at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison could have important ramifications for other government contractors. More...
TUES 1/27 -- While President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, Facing South guest contributor Jordan Flaherty reports on a court proceeding in Louisiana that exposes brutality closer to home. More...
Doctors treating Palestinians injured in the recent war in Gaza suspect Israel used unconventional munitions known as Dense Inert Metal Explosive bombs that were developed and tested by the U.S. military at bases in the South. They've called for medical follow-up for the injured, since the weapons' unusual shrapnel puts blast survivors at risk for a rare and deadly cancer. More...
A Texas-based company already fighting a lawsuit over human trafficking is again under scrutiny after Asian workers who paid dearly for jobs in Baghdad were left unemployed, trapped inside a guarded compound and facing deportation. More...
Some human rights activists are skeptical about the president-elect's commitment to 'fair trade.' Bush's campaign to push through a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia -- where assassinations of dissidents are on the rise -- will be his chance to prove them wrong. More...
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