Human Rights

Salim Vally
Africa’s role in Palestinian Liberation–an Interview with Salim Vally
20 Dec 2023
ROAPE interviews South African Human Rights activist and academic Salim Vally on Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and the relationship between Palestinian liberation and Africa.
Black Alliance For Peace
On this Human Rights Day, Let Us Remember that the U.S. is the Greatest Violator of Human Rights in the World
13 Dec 2023
The U.S. routinely violates human rights domestically and internationally.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black Agenda Report Joins in Gaza Relief Effort
15 Nov 2023
Corporate media excel at misdirection and telling outright lies. Independent media must have a seat at the table when opportunities arise to cover events such as relief efforts for the people of Gaza…
Efia Nwangaza
COINTELPRO/Civil Rights Era Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, Exiles Are on the Agenda of a UN Panel
03 May 2023
A United Nations panel of experts is in the US investigating the condition of political prisoners held in this country.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Worthy and Unworthy Protest
30 Nov 2022
Protesters in some nations are celebrated. Others are ignored. Protest is a human right to be respected but instead can be used as a pretext for nefarious motives such as regime change.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Biden Lies at the United Nations
28 Sep 2022
U.S. presidents routinely violate international law and the United Nations Charter. Yet every year they appear before that body and proclaim American innocence.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Reproductive Justice, Human Rights and the Failure of Electoral Politics
26 Aug 2022
Breya Johnson is Deputy Director of Organizing of Girls for Gender Equity. She joins us to talk about why the political system fails to provide reproductive justice or any other human rights needs.…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: The Black Revolution is Part of World-wide Struggle, Malcolm X, 1964
06 Jul 2022
Malcolm X reminds us of the deceit of liberals, the power of international thinking, and the coming of Black revolution.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Ukraine: War and the Challenge of Human Rights in the United States and Beyond
23 Mar 2022
The U.S. justifies wars of aggression in the name of human rights. The term has no meaning domestically either, as the people's needs are subordinated to those of the ruling class.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
People Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition
07 Dec 2021
The West’s fiction of “human rights” has been weaponized by neoliberals to rationalize naked imperialist interventions.