UN rights chief calls for global ‘zero tolerance’ against antisemitism
This comes just a day after the UN human rights office (OHCHR) issued a statement expressing horror over the reported summary execution of six Israeli...
In Disruption, Go Back to Our Roots
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
It has not yet been sixty days, but in two scant months the 47th President has upended...
Fraud, Waste and Abuse
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
The dystopian man who lives in the House that Enslaved People Built campaigned that he would reduce...
Shelter and safety elude Afghan women returnees from Iran and Pakistan
Since September 2023, more than 2.43 million undocumented Afghan migrants have returned from Iran and Pakistan.Women and girls account for about half of the...
The Bishop Who Stood Up to Trump
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Vantage Point VignetteComments and Commentary by Dr. Ron Daniels
In the spirit of resistance and transformation which I have been repeatedly advocating,...
UN provides emergency cash injection for global crisis hotspots
More than a third of the funds will support aid efforts in Yemen ($20 million) and Ethiopia ($15 million), where desperate civilians are grappling...
UN rights chief raises alarm over escalating violence in Syria
The killing of civilians in coastal areas in northwest Syria must cease immediately, the UN rights chief said on Sunday following a series of...
Its Ongoing Struggle for Life and Liberation
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By Dr. Maulana Karenga —
Part 1.
In celebrating this the 221st anniversary of the world transformative liberation struggle and Revolution of the...
WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza
On Friday, WFP announced it had delivered its last remaining supplies to kitchens preparing hot meals which are expected to be completely gone within...
Human Rights Council hears alarming updates on executions in Iran and global civic space...
At least 975 people were executed in Iran in 2024, the highest number reported since 2015, according to a report Deputy High Commissioner for...
World News in Brief: Sudan hospitals under fire, world remembers victims of terrorism, DR...
A grenade attack inside Zalingei Hospital in Darfur State, led Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend all of its activities there yesterday. MSF had...
When Big Tech’s thirst threatens our health, we must demand better
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By Ben Jealous —
In Morrow County, Oregon, families are living through a crisis. According to a Rolling Stone investigation, mothers have...
Myanmar: Rights investigators reveal ‘systematic torture’, sexual violence
In its annual report released on Tuesday, the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said it had made “important progress” documenting crimes and identifying...
Ukraine: Population drops by 10 million since Russia invaded in 2014, UNFPA reports
Since Russia’s invasion in 2014, the ongoing war has worsened these trends, with millions displaced and thousands killed, said Florence Bauer, UNFPA regional director for...
Taliban assault on women’s rights continues in Afghanistan
On Thursday, UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) spokesperson Liz Throssell revealed that in its latest act of disempowerment, de facto authorities have told women...
The Politics of Fear and Mislabeling
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By Dr. Julianne Malveaux —
Now that Zohran Mamdani is the Mayor-elect of New York City, expect the slings and arrows at...
National Reparations Strategy Session Urgent Call to Action
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DOJ’s Threat to Asheville Exposes Hypocrisy in America’s War Against Black Reparations
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By Nkechi Taifa, Esq. —
The U.S. Department of Justice has fired a dangerous shot across the bow of Asheville, North Carolina,...
Absent faces, destroyed homes – young students paint the pain of Gaza
Their paintings and drawings range from a portrait of an esteemed Palestinian poet and family members killed in conflict, to a sky blackened by...
How to raise rational children in our modern world – Science180
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In our modern secular world, and with the many things that kids are taught at school and over which parents have...
Thailand grants work rights to long-term refugees from Myanmar, UN welcomes resolution
Some 81,000 forcibly displaced people are hosted in temporary shelters along the Thai-Myanmar border where they have been living in the camps for decades.Nearly...
Risk of large-scale atrocities in Sudan’s El Fasher grows ‘by the day’
The agency has received reports of summary executions of civilians trying to escape what was the last Sudanese military government stronghold of El Fasher –...
Philippines: Humane approach to incarceration relieves chronic prison overcrowding
At the Manila City Jail in the Philippines capital, prisoners lie in neat rows as they demonstrate how they sleep every night.In male dormitory...
Urges Biden to Enact HR-40 Commission by Executive Order
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As a follow-up to the post-presidential election National/International Town Hall Meeting convened by the Institute of the Black World 21st Century...
