Hershey And Nestlé Hit With Major Child Slavery Lawsuit

Hershey And Nestlé Hit With Major Child Slavery Lawsuit

Eight young adults are suing a number of chocolate companies — including behemoths such as Hershey and Nestlé — for what they claim is the knowing use and profit of child slavery in the Ivory Coast. The group of eight are all allegedly victims of the practice and were forced as children to pick cocoa […]

Human Rights Campaign Condemns Marjorie Taylor Greene Over ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Behavior

Human Rights Campaign Condemns Marjorie Taylor Greene Over ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Behavior

In a statement released Saturday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) condemned Republican Party Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia over her “deeply disturbing” actions. The organization issued the statement on the heels of revelations that Greene threatened Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg and endorsed assassinating prominent Democratic politicians. “The news that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene […]

Human Trafficking Raid In Brazil Frees 39 Slaves

Human Trafficking Raid In Brazil Frees 39 Slaves

Nearly 40 slaves have been rescued after being forced to work against their will in an illegal gold mine in Brazil. Modern day slavery remains a huge problem in many countries, and labor authorities have warned that the perpetrators are becoming more sophisticated in hiding their practices, despite human rights efforts. According to Al Jazeera, […]

There Are More Than 100 Uighur Detention Camps In China Than Previously Estimated, New Report Claims

There Are More Than 100 Uighur Detention Camps In China Than Previously Estimated, New Report Claims

A new report conducted by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has claimed that there are over a hundred more Uighur detention camps throughout China than previously believed. The findings come as the Middle Kingdom has continued to fight against international criticism by insisting that the nation is scaling back on its “re-education” policies of the […]

China Institutes Mass Labor Program In A ‘Targeted Attack On Traditional Tibetan Livelihoods’

China Institutes Mass Labor Program In A ‘Targeted Attack On Traditional Tibetan Livelihoods’

Reports from China are claiming that the communist nation has begun to displace a growing number of rural Tibetan laborers into “military-style training centers” with the goal of creating a new pool of factory workers, according to Reuters. International policy experts have voiced their worries that the move closely mirrors the regime’s actions in the […]

Angela Davis & Nikki Giovanni Share First-Ever Candid Conversation, Lending Their Legacy To GirlTrek Movement

Angela Davis & Nikki Giovanni Share First-Ever Candid Conversation, Lending Their Legacy To GirlTrek Movement

Angela Davis and Nikki Giovanni came together on Friday in what was promoted by GirlTrek, via Facebook, as “the first-ever joint candid conversation” between the two iconic African American cultural figures. During an eventful live event, the women were brought together by Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison — founders of the GirlTrek platform — for […]

Starbucks Slammed After 8-Year-Olds Were Found Working At Several Of Their Supply Farms

Starbucks Slammed After 8-Year-Olds Were Found Working At Several Of Their Supply Farms

Popular coffee chain Starbucks has found itself in hot water after a documentary exposed several Nicaraguan farms that supplied the company relied on child labor. Worse still, the children were subjected to grueling working conditions and were hardly paid for their services. According to The Guardian, some of the children found working on the farms […]

Major Companies Like Apple & Nike Are Using Forced Labor, Alleges New Report

Major Companies Like Apple & Nike Are Using Forced Labor, Alleges New Report

A withering new report has slammed numerous companies, including technology behemoth Apple and sportswear company Nike, for using forced labor to manufacture their products. Many workers who were reportedly coerced to work against their will were members of the Muslim Uighur minority in northwestern China. The report was written by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, […]

Amnesty International Accuses Hong Kong Police Of Torturing Protesters

Amnesty International Accuses Hong Kong Police Of Torturing Protesters

Human rights group Amnesty International has accused Hong Kong’s police force of “unnecessary and excessive force” towards detained protesters in what it says amounts to “torture,” Bloomberg Quint reported. With riots raging over the influence of China on the now-independent ex-British colony, concerns are mounting that the news could pour additional fuel the civil unrest […]

Google Is Reportedly Strengthening Ties To Egypt, Despite Its Government’s Human Rights Abuses

Google Is Reportedly Strengthening Ties To Egypt, Despite Its Government’s Human Rights Abuses

A new report by The Intercept claims that Google is re-staffing its office in Cairo, Egypt, in the wake of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seizing power in 2014 and a string of abuses by his government aimed at dissidents and activists. The government reportedly fuels these abuses using both mass and targeted internet surveillance, as […]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Solitary Confinement ‘Torture’ After Believing Paul Manafort Will Be Held There

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Solitary Confinement ‘Torture’ After Believing Paul Manafort Will Be Held There

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called solitary confinement “torture” while being under the impression that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is going to be held there, Yahoo News reports. What’s more, he’s going to be held at Rikers Island, which is in the freshman Democrat representative’s home district. Manafort is currently serving a federal sentence at a […]

Facebook Joins ‘Dirty List’ Of 49 Companies Accused Of Violating Human Rights In Myanmar

Facebook Joins ‘Dirty List’ Of 49 Companies Accused Of Violating Human Rights In Myanmar

Several companies from the U.S., U.K., France, Switzerland, and China have been added to a “dirty list” compiled of corporations accused of human rights or environmental violations in Myanmar, reports the Guardian. Also added to the list are companies allegedly involved with the country’s military, which has been accused of genocide. The list, created by […]

Transgender People In Chile Can Now Legally Change Their Gender On Official Documents

Transgender People In Chile Can Now Legally Change Their Gender On Official Documents

Transgender people 14-years-old and older in Chile will now be legally allowed to change their gender marker on official documents thanks to a bill signed into law by President Sebastian Pinera today. Chilean activists have been fighting for nearly five years to pass such a law, which human rights groups are praising as “historic,” according […]

Facebook Under Fire For Allowing Man In South Sudan To Make Post Auctioning Teen Daughter As Child Bride

Facebook Under Fire For Allowing Man In South Sudan To Make Post Auctioning Teen Daughter As Child Bride

Facebook is coming under fire for allowing a man in South Sudan to make a post auctioning off his 17-year-old daughter to the highest bidder as a child bride. As the Guardian reported, the post from the war-torn African nation gained viral attention and was allowed to remain up for several days as a group […]

Human Rights Groups Initiate Lawsuit To End Coerced Sterilization Of Indigenous Women In Canada

Human Rights Groups Initiate Lawsuit To End Coerced Sterilization Of Indigenous Women In Canada

Human rights groups are banding together in Canada to call for the end of the coerced sterilization of indigenous women, reports The Guardian. A class-action lawsuit against health officials aims to seek compensation for the violation of the rights of at least 60 women in the province of Saskatchewan. Although the lawsuit has yet to […]

Amnesty International: Venezuela Murder Toll Worse Than War Zones, Government Responsible

Amnesty International: Venezuela Murder Toll Worse Than War Zones, Government Responsible

The Venezuelan government is responsible for the “worst human rights crisis in its history,” according to Amnesty International. The human rights organization’s latest research into violence and abuse in Venezuela, published September 20, states the following. “Firstly, the state has failed to guarantee the right to life in a context of violence between private individuals. […]

Stop And Search Policing Increases Crime: Report

Stop And Search Policing Increases Crime: Report

The practice of police stopping and searching pedestrians increases crime rates, according to a report released Tuesday by a British charity. Published by charity StopWatch, the report looked at the experience of Londoners targeted by the London Metropolitan Police for searches. The charity said it found evidence suggesting stop and search tactics can push otherwise […]

China Accuses Sweden Of Violating Human Rights After Hostel-Booking Confusion

China Accuses Sweden Of Violating Human Rights After Hostel-Booking Confusion

An incident involving three Chinese tourists at a Swedish hostel has resulted in a diplomatic argument between China and Sweden, reports The Guardian. A disagreement between Chinese tourists, two parents and their son, and the Generator Stockholm hostel over a check-in time resulted in the hostel calling the police and having the family forcefully escorted […]

California Becomes First State To Condemn ‘Corrective’ Surgeries On Intersex Children

California Becomes First State To Condemn ‘Corrective’ Surgeries On Intersex Children

Advocates for intersex children have been fighting against so-called ‘corrective’ surgeries for decades and California just made history by becoming the first U.S. state to denounce these surgeries. California State Legislature passed a resolution on Tuesday which took a firm stand against medically unnecessary procedures on children who were born with intersex conditions. The resolution […]

Tommy And Kiko: Chimps Don’t Have Human Rights Or Personhood Rules Court, Chimpanzee To Stay Locked In Cages

Tommy And Kiko: Chimps Don’t Have Human Rights Or Personhood Rules Court, Chimpanzee To Stay Locked In Cages

The quest by Nonhuman Rights Project to free the chimpanzees Tommy and Kiko from caged confinement has reached an end. The organization had hoped to secure the animals the same legal status as humans so that the chimps could be moved to an animal sanctuary. But the New York Court of Appeals voted to let […]

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