When did the act of public protest — a right protected by the First Amendment — become an act of “rebellion” eliciting a military response? What began as a fairly small protest against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at an apparel manufacturer in the Fashion District in downtown Los Angeles on June 6,...
Why does Uber make videos where people say, “I’m non-binary or genderqueer”? And why does Lockheed Martin fund floats at Pride parades? Because companies want to raise their score on the Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index.” Equality is...
Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles has called former US swimmer and activist Riley Gaines “sick” over online comments about a transgender woman softball player. Gaines, who has regularly spoken out about transgender women athletes competing in women’s sport, mocked Minnesota State High School League for removing comments on their post about the Chaplin Park girls’...
The World Bank says it is lifting a ban on loans to Uganda that it had put in place two years ago when the country passed a draconian new law against LGBTQ people. In 2023, Uganda voted in some of the world’s harshest anti-homosexual legislation meaning that anybody engaging in certain same-sex acts can be...
The April bombing of a Yemeni oil port by U.S. forces that killed and wounded hundreds of civilians and disrupted the delivery of lifesaving aid to one of the world’s most war-torn nations was “an apparent war crime” that should be investigated, a leading international human rights group said Wednesday. On April 17, a series...
Getty Images Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected to public office in California The US Navy plans to remove the name of gay rights leader and Navy veteran Harvey Milk from one of its ships, and may change the titles of other vessels honouring civil rights leaders. The plans were outlined in...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Taylor Swift has been fighting to regain the rights to her master tapes since 2019 Taylor Swift has bought back the rights to her first six albums, ending a long-running battle over the ownership of her music. “All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me,” said...
Before the break of dawn on May 3, the families of incarcerated individuals begin gathering around the processing trailer at the bottom of the concrete steps leading up to New York’s Elmira Correctional Facility. After being denied the opportunity to visit for over a month due to a wildcat strike by New York State Correctional...
Getty Images The Supreme Court ruling means that people are legally allowed to camp in set areas of Dartmoor Wild camping is “not about large tents and fairy lights” Dartmoor’s authority has said after a court decision affirming the right to pitch a tent on the moor. Supreme Court judges unanimously rejected an appeal by...
Washington State voters overwhelmingly approved an Initiative colloquially known as the Parents Bill of Rights in 2024. Hundreds of thousands of signatures were collected, and the legislature passed a statute giving parents rights to review school curricula and the records of their children held by the school. Unsurprisingly, the legislature rubber-stamped the popular measure during...
Liverpool-based legal firm Hill Dickinson is the naming rights partner for Everton’s new stadium. The new arena will be named the Hill Dickinson Stadium after the company, which has its headquarters in the city. Everton will move to the stadium for the start of the 2025-26 season, leaving their current home of Goodison Park. They...
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its third year, Ukraine’s left-wing community is continuing its work fighting both neoliberalism and Russian aggression. Sotsialnyi Rukh or “Social Movement” is Ukraine’s largest and oldest democratic socialist organization. Founded in the aftermath of the Euromaidan protests of 2013-14, Sotsialnyi Rukh has held steadfast to its principled leftist politics...
Caroline Hawley BBC Diplomatic Correspondent NurPhoto/Getty Human rights groups are warning of a “surge” of deaths of migrant construction workers in Saudi Arabia, as it prepares to host the World Cup in 2034. Labourers are already dying from preventable workplace accidents in the country, according to Human Rights Watch and FairSquare which have both published...
This story was originally published in at Prism. San Diego-based attorney Ian Seruelo received three separate reports in March alone about local county Sheriff Kelly Martinez violating California’s immigration policy. The California Values Act, also known as Senate Bill 54 (SB 54), ensures that local law enforcement will not cooperate with immigration authorities to deport...
A major conservation charity linked to Prince Harry has admitted that human rights abuses were committed by its rangers in Congo-Brazzaville, following an independent review into allegations made by members of the Baka community against African Parks rangers. In a report published last year by the British newspaper the Mail on Sunday, community members accused...