Human Rights

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Use and Abuse of the Genocide Convention
05 Nov 2025
Genocide crime, as defined by the UN Convention on Genocide, is sadly common. When does the world decide to respond?
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The United States and Israel: The Tale of Two Rogue Settler-Colonial States United by A Commitment to White Supremacy and Barbaric State Violence
29 Oct 2025
The genocide in Gaza, the threat to Venezuela, and the targeting of Iran are not isolated crises. They are coordinated fronts in a single war effort attempting to enforce imperial dominance.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor , Dan Kovalik
Is the UN Charter Worth the Paper It’s Written On?
08 Oct 2025
In practice, the UN Charter ensures that the world’s most powerful nations are free to wage war at will without UN intervention or even censure, as the US has time and again.
Roger D. Harris
US Human Rights Report on Venezuela Doesn’t Pass the Mirror Test
20 Aug 2025
The U.S. State Department's latest human rights report on Venezuela follows a familiar pattern of lying about a nation declared to be an adversary while human rights in the U.S. are violated in a…
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
Full text: The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024
20 Aug 2025
A new report from Beijing reveals the hypocrisy of U.S. human rights rhetoric, revealing a nation where gun violence, political corruption, and poverty are not anomalies but features of a broken…
Matteo Capasso
The Unraveling: America Against America in the Post-Liberal Moment
13 Aug 2025
Fukuyama's 'end of history' was just an excuse for empire that Wang Huning saw through back in 1991. Now, as America's broken system tears itself apart, our job isn't to save it, but to build…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Denied Bail, Remanded to Prison
23 Jul 2025
Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire’s arrest belies Rwanda’s pretense to liberal democracy and its pretense to self-defense in DRC.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Malcolm X and Human Rights in the Time of Trumpism: Transcending the Masters Tools
21 May 2025
Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement…
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
Remembering Mario Joseph, BAI Managing Attorney
09 Apr 2025
The world has lost a champion of justice with the passing of Mario Joseph, a Haitian human rights lawyer who spent nearly three decades fighting for victims of state violence, cholera negligence, and…
Janvieve Williams Comrie
Panama’s Outrage Over Deportations: A Reckoning with a Reality Long Ignored
12 Mar 2025
Trump administration interference in Panama has brought about a reckoning on migration and human rights throughout the region. These issues can no longer be ignored.