‘More than 200 children, some as young as 12, were held in police cells while suffering mental health crises last year, because of a lack of suitable hospital beds, figures obtained by The Independent on […]
‘UK tabloids like the Murdoch-owned Sun that compared immigrants to ‘cockroaches’ recall the dark days of the Nazi media attacking those they sought to eliminate, according to the UN’s human rights chief.’ Read more: UN […]
‘Clashes have broken out in Baltimore’s Camden Yards as demonstrators began throwing bottles at police and smashing cars. Thousands of marchers took to the streets to protest the death of Freddie Gray, a black man […]
‘The United States response to the civil war in Yemen should be the opposite of what it’s doing. Since late January, Yemen—the poorest Arab country—has been embroiled in a bloody civil war that is escalating […]
‘On the second day of the Nobel Women’s Initiative conference on building global support for women human rights defenders, the 100 participants delivered a sobering and urgent message: history is still repeating itself. Watching the […]
‘Today, 26 April 2015, marks the 29th anniversary of the worst nuclear disaster in world history – the Chernobyl catastrophe. And unfortunately, preventing further major releases of radioactivity into the environment seems to be a […]
‘Of those, 1,235 have been awarded compensation and discharged with post-traumatic stress disorder. The figures, obtained under a Freedom of Information request, show 718 were discharged for depression, while 130 were suffering from alcohol-related behavioural […]
‘The motivation behind U.S. President Barack Obama’s trans-Pacific trade-deal TPP, and his trans-Atlantic trade-deal TTIP — the motivation behind both of these enormous international trade-deals — is the same, and Democratic U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren […]
‘The White House’s unclassified computer system was breached last year, as a result of which, hackers accessed some of US President Barack Obama’s email correspondence, senior American officials familiar with the ongoing investigation told the […]
‘The White House’s unclassified computer system was breached last year, as a result of which, hackers accessed some of US President Barack Obama’s email correspondence, senior American officials familiar with the ongoing investigation told the […]
‘Today a class action lawsuit (Case No: BC 578 942) was filed in Los Angeles County, California against the Monsanto corporation. The suit alleges that Monsanto is guilty of false advertising by claiming that glyphosate, […]
‘Here’s one instance where Israel is on the same side as many other countries in the Middle East. On Friday, April 24, Armenians around the world will mark the centennial of what they call the […]