‘Willful killing’: UN warns Israel not to shoot at Palestinian protestors

The use of live fire by the Israeli security forces against Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border may amount to willful killing and a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the UN warns. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Liz Throssell has condemned the “deplorable” killing of Palestinians during the Great Return March, and […]

40 congressional lawmakers write letter to expel Turkish personnel involved in attack on protestors

Screenshot via VOA Turkish A group of 40 representatives wrote a letter to the Justice Department and State Department on Thursday urging them to immediately expel any Turkish personnel involved in a violent attack on protesters in Washington, DC, earlier this month. “This may be how they deal with dissenters in Turkey, but here in […]

Where Cops Gas Protestors With Chemicals Banned in Warfare

Ricardo Martínez is a freelance journalist based in Peru. He has also reported from Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Bolivia. Police spraying tear gas at crowds of peaceful protesters has become an all-too-common sight in Venezuela. But it’s actually part of a bigger problem in the Americas: These less-lethal chemical attacks on people’s right to life […]

Women’s March Protestors Fear Trump Will Worsen Economic Inequality

Aside from the large crowds at Saturday’s Women’s March in Washington D.C., perhaps the most memorable aspect of the event were the homemade signs carried by protestors. They contained a myriad of messages: slogans supporting well-known activist movements, jokes about the newly inaugurated President, and messages calling for unity and empowerment. But another subset of […]

Protestors still plan to march along Mark Zuckerberg’s Hawaiian wall

Getty / Drew Angerer Hundreds of Hawaiians still plan to march in protest on Saturday along the six-foot-high wall that Mark Zuckerberg built in Kauai, despite the Facebook CEO’s decision to drop lawsuits that would compel some of them to give up ownership of their land. The protest’s organizer, a local hibiscus farmer named Joe Hart, […]