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Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Malcolm X and Human Rights in the Time of Trumpism: Transcending the Masters Tools
21 May 2025
Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement…
Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
Remembering Mario Joseph, BAI Managing Attorney
09 Apr 2025
The world has lost a champion of justice with the passing of Mario Joseph, a Haitian human rights lawyer who spent nearly three decades fighting for victims of state violence, cholera negligence, and…
Janvieve Williams Comrie
Panama’s Outrage Over Deportations: A Reckoning with a Reality Long Ignored
12 Mar 2025
Trump administration interference in Panama has brought about a reckoning on migration and human rights throughout the region. These issues can no longer be ignored.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Who Protects the People from the Human Rights Protectors?
26 Feb 2025
Can Palestinians get a little Humanitarian Intervention?
John Perry
How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for “Regime Change”
08 Jan 2025
The international human rights apparatus comprises a web of organizations, task forces, committees, and the United Nations itself. What has developed into an entire industry over the last several…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Without Including Biden and Blinken and the Issue of Genocide, International Criminal Court Arrest Warrants Are a Sham
27 Nov 2024
The International Criminal Court finally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, but this action is merely performative. If arrest warrants do not include war criminals like Joe Biden and other…
Phil Wilayto
Crisis & Cover-up at Red Onion Super-Max
27 Nov 2024
Red Onion Prison in Virginia has the same history of racism, brutal violence, and inhumane conditions that characterize the entire mass incarceration system. But recently men held there in solitary…
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
Fujimori Is Dead, Fujimorismo Is Not
02 Oct 2024
The death of Alberto Fujimori should signal the end of a devastating and tragic era for the Peruvian masses. However, the violence and corruption that were staples of his regime remain prominent…
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
We Win Peace When We Struggle for It: Cuba and the Zone of Peace
22 May 2024
Cuba hosted its international peace seminar during May Day celebrations on the island.
Jerry Grey
The State Department Report on Human Rights
08 May 2024
Blinken knew exactly what he was doing. The release of the State Department’s “2023 Country Report” on the eve of his arrival in China was no coincidence.