James Roosevelt stood on a large outdoor stage on Tuesday in a Washington, D.C., park filled with union members waving signs about Social Security.  "Every American," he said, "deserves what my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt laid out for them."

WakeUpWalmart.com, America's Campaign to change Wal-Mart, announced today a new grassroots initiative to highlight Wal-Mart's systematic discrimination against women workers.

So, Jimmy Carter and James Baker are sitting at a table, and Carter starts talking about the disastrous election of 2000 in Florida....

When George W. Bush campaigned for election in 2000, he said he believed that women ought to receive equal pay for equal work.

As part of the “No Child Left Behind Act”, high schools are required under penalty of law to hand over student phone lists to U.S. military recruiters.

The US government is riding roughshod over Australian laws by forcing companies it does business with to discriminate against employees on the basis of nationality.

Is it the price of gas? Quagmire in Iraq? Bad ideas on Social Security? Support for intervention in Terri Schiavo’s life decisions? Economic stagnation? Exploding budget deficits?

When the House of Representatives passed the $81 billion war appropriations bill last month, they slipped in an attachment called REAL ID.

As we mark the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination nearly forty years ago, we might ask ourselves: is there still a dream?

The State Department purported to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a basic definition of human rights and condemned violations of the principles codified in that document.

Ten years had passed since I’d been the target of ten cops near Beaubien and Monroe Streets in Detroit’s Greektown District.

David Brooks recently wrote an article called "Morality and Reality" in which he discusses the Terri Schiavo case and claims the moral high ground for the conservative position (replace the feeding tube.)

In 2004 the atrocity of US troops abusing Iraqi POWs exposed the dark side of human rights performance of the United States. The scandal shocked the humanity and was condemned by the international community.

The United States refuses to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights and took negative attitude to the economic, social and cultural rights of the laborers.

The situation of American women and children was disturbing. The rates of women and children physically or sexually victimized were high.

JUST a few days away from municipal elections in Cuba (April 17) there are reasons for attempting to find an equation to parallel the electoral process in general on the island and that of the United States.

A far-right organization bristling from the union's campaign against privatization has attacked the AFL-CIO in a recent press statement.

Not only does Bush’s 2006 budget punish veterans, the poor, retirees, and other working people for not being rich, it is a blatant power grab.

Representatives from several national organizations announced the goal of collecting 1 million signatures in a petition drive to encourage Congressional reauthorization of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Bush's judicial appointee Thomas B. Griffith has a strong record of opposition to women’s rights and falsely answered questions about is record under oath.