(2018-10-02). Mexican Land Activist Shot Outside Tlalmanalco Home. telesurtv.net Human Rights Organizations have requested state officials launch an impartial investigation into the murder.
(2018-10-02). Trump Admin Sends 1,600 Kids to Texas Tent City as Number of Detained Children Hits Record High. democracynow.org 
The Trump administration is transferring detained migrant children from shelters across the country to a barren tent city in West Texas. The New York Times reports that hundreds of children are being sent each week from shelters to the tent city, which currently houses 1,600 children. The facility reportedly has no school, and children have only limited access to legal services. The U.S. government is now detaining a record 13,000 migrant children. We speak with Louise Melling, deputy legal director at the ACLU, who says, "We have more children in detention now than ever before."
(2018-10-02). Jalama Detention Center Deliberately Providing Dirty Water to Detainees during Interrogation. imemc.org A number of Palestinian detainees filed a complaint with the Detainees Committee, against Israeli Prison Services, for offering them dirty water while under interrogation at Jalama detention center. 41-year-old detainee Abu Rejleya told a lawyer, after his visit to Ofer detention center, that during his interrogation at Jalama detention center, […]…
(2018-10-01). 'Horrific' Immigration Policy: In Dead of Night, Trump Administration Transferring Children to Tent Camp with No Schooling and Limited Legal Services. globalresearch.ca "A reminder that the Trump administration is diverting money away from Head Start, the National Cancer Institute, the HIV/AIDS programs, maternal and child health programs, and the CDC to pay for these human rights abuses." | With detention facilities overflowing due …
(2018-10-01). UN Human Rights Council Extends Mandate for Investigation of War Crimes in Yemen. mintpressnews.com "States at the UN Human Rights Council stood firm today, in the face of shameful efforts by the Saudi-led coalition to quash a UN expert inquiry." — General Director, Human Rights Watch
(2018-10-01). UK's Snoopers' Charter Ruled Unlawful: What Does Privacy Mean to You? globalresearch.ca Two weeks ago the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) gave a landmark ruling against the UK government's mass surveillance program, stating that it violated human rights and offered "no real safeguards" to the public. This surveillance programme, according to …
(2018-10-01). Tortured Solutions: Ecuador, the UK and Julian Assange's Fate. counterpunch.org The pulse of negotiations, a flurry of communications, and the person central to this is one who threatens to go nowhere — for the moment. But go somewhere these parties would wish Julian Assange to do. For six years, cramped within a space in London a stone's throw away from Harrods, one he has made More
(2018-10-01). Migrant Children Transferred to Tent Camp in Dead of Night. truthdig.com As detention facilities overflow, thousands are being moved to a Texas shelter that offers no schooling and only limited access to legal services.
(2018-10-01). Trump Administration Transfers Immigrant Youth to Tent Camp With No Schooling. truthout.org With detention facilities overflowing due to President Donald Trump's monstrous immigration policies — which have sent the number of children detained by the US government soaring to a record 12,800 — the Trump administration is reportedly carrying out dead-of-night "mass transfers" of children from foster homes and shelters to a crowded Texas tent camp, where they have no schooling and limited access to legal services. | (2018-10-01). Protests hit mass detention of immigrant children in Texas tent camp. wsws.org The barren tent camp in the desert on the Mexican border is built to house up to 3,800 children.
(2018-10-01). A Judge Just Reminded CBP That the Border Isn't a Rights-Free Zone. aclu.org A federal court ruled in favor of an American family suing over their abusive detention at the U.S.-Canada border. | An American family that underwent a harrowing detention at the hands of U.S. Customs and Border Protection can now seek some measure of justice. That's the result of a recent ruling by the federal judge presiding over the lawsuit we filed on behalf of…
(2018-09-27). The Government Dropped the Ball on U.S. Torture Accountability. Citizens Picked It Up. aclu.org 
A new report shows the North Carolina government's complicity with the CIA torture program and urges a state investigation. | Sheer stubbornness is required of us when our government violates the law and refuses to recognize it. | Seeking justice for the U.S. torture program of the post-9/11 period has required a lot of stubbornness. In North Carolina, a 12-year quest has led to a new report, "Torture Flights: North Carolina's Role in the CIA Rendition and Torture Program." | The report was released Thursday by the nongovernmental (2018-09-25). Amnesty International wants Kavanaugh vetting process halted over alleged role in post-9/11 torture. rt.com 
The US branch of Amnesty International has dived into the heated debate on whether US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is morally fit for the office, calling for his role in the post-9/11 torture program to be highlighted.
(2018-09-21). Michael Moore: Are We Going to Be Like the "Good Germans" Who Let Hitler Rise to Power? democracynow.org 
In his new documentary "Fahrenheit 11/9," filmmaker Michael Moore interviews the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, who describes President Trump's policy of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border and the large-scale detention of immigrant children as a "crime against humanity." Moore also looks at the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany and compares it to the rise of Trump in the United States.
(2018-09-12). Arreaza: Venezuela Will Continue to 'Fully Collaborate' With UN Human Rights Council. venezuelanalysis.com At the U.N., Venezuela's Jorge Arreaza compared the economic blockade to the economic war waged against Chile's socialist government in the seventies.