human rights Archive

The Southern Coalition for Social Justice filed this Brief of Amicus Curiae Virginia State Conference of the NAACP in the US Supreme Court.  The Court is considering a case which will determine whether voting rights plaintiffs in statewide redistricting cases …

By: Charmaine SantosTwo years ago, U.S. authorities launched Blue Lightning, an anti-trafficking campaign that encouraged airlines to train their employees on how to identify possible traffickers and report suspicious behavior to police. Now U.S. flight attendants are asking the government …

By Luis GayAP, The Associated Press, conducted “a yearlong investigation” which discovered that Burmese slaves have caught some of the seafood sold in American grocery stores, restaurants, and even cat food. Through interviews, AP discovered that “dozens of men  …

By Luis GayMore than 200 women and children were “freed from the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria on .” Of those, many were children and a large amount of women were pregnant. Health screenings and psychological counseling for …

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to immediately hear an appeal in a case challenging the state’s 2013 voting law, where the lower appeals court ruled that the state’s attempt to end same day registration and out of precinct voting likely violated the Voting …

  ENGAGE: Write a letter to the editor For 1.6 million North Carolinians, the worst part of job searching is not the interview, but the moment they drop off the application. Nearly every employment application contains a small box on …

By: Arun Kumar Acharya, Ph.D. Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries. Since the United Nation’s Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons was signed into law in 2001 and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act …