The actual relationship between Human Rights Watch and the superpower is most clear in the case of Rwanda, where the United States backs Paul Kagame’s vicious Tutsi minority dictatorship. The Rwandan regime imprisons or kills those who point out that hundreds of thousands of Hutus, who constitute the overwhelming majority of Rwanda’s population, were killed by Kagame’s forces during the bloodbath of 1994.
Ann Garrison and the late Glen Ford discussed U.S. and human rights industrial complex support for Kagame in 2017.
The U.S. State Department's latest human rights report on Venezuela follows a now-familiar pattern, meticulously cataloging the faults of an adversary while offering a glowing picture of its own…
For Black August, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France sets the record straight on her father’s revolutionary legacy.
Washington's strategy of endless war in Ukraine is collapsing under its own weight. The Alaska summit isn't a victory for diplomacy but a stark admission of its defeat.
A new report from Beijing turns the U.S.'s own human rights rhetoric back on itself, detailing a nation where gun violence, political corruption, and poverty are not anomalies but features of a…
The Israeli murder of heroic Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif was bookended by accusations that he was part of Hamas. For many of our allies, the instinct is to prove his innocence by proving…
