This week, Pittsburgh-based Global Links is celebrating its 20th year of providing desperately-needed medical supplies to nine different countries in the Western Hemisphere. Global Links does this by recovering perfectly good, surplus medical materials from U.S. hospitals and shipping them to under served communities in less developed countries, such...

Dr. Luther Castillo, who was named "Honduran Doctor of the Year" in 2007 by Rotary International, has just sent out an alert through the non-profit group MEDICC, that he and his staff at the Indigenous Garifuna Community Hospital have received an order from the de facto Honduran government to...

While the mainstream press barely mentions the situation in Honduras now, just over one month after the coup, numerous reports are coming out of Honduras that the human rights situation is deteriorating fast as the coup government attempts to consolidate power in that country. This attempt at consolidation appears to...

I just returned from a trip to Honduras where I was part of a delegation of seven U.S. citizens, including two Catholic priests, concerned about the coup in Honduras and its aftermath. While in Honduras, we met with numerous civic groups, including unions, human rights groups and peasant associations. As...

Workers Uniting, the world's first global union representing 3.5 million workers in North America, the UK and Ireland, has just issued the following statement on the coup in Honduras.

Workers Uniting stands in solidarity with our fellow unions in Honduras - including the Unitary Central of Honduran Workers...

The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed grave concern over "a recent wave of death threats against human rights workers and social activists, including displaced leaders working to defend their communities' rights." See, UNHCR Statement. According to the UNHCR, these recent threats, made by a new armed...

Despite the claims of the Colombian government and those in the U.S., Canada and the EU eager to consummate "free trade" pacts with that regime, the human rights situation in that country is deteriorating fast. Indeed, by key measures -- the killing of unionists, extra-judicial killings by the military, and...

As Colombian President Uribe tours the globe in support of a Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., Canada and the EU, the union workers in his country continue to be killed at levels unprecedented in the world. So far this year, 17 unionists have been killed in Colombia, putting Colombia...

(UPDATED) In his final debate with John McCain, President-elect Barack Obama made it clear why he opposed passage of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) - because of the problem with union assassinations in Colombia (still the highest in the world) and because the Colombian government has failed to investigate...

News Update, 11-18-08:

Obama Taps Eric Holder as Attorney General

Read More at HuffPost's Big News Page on Obama's Cabinet

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Read Dan Kovalik's original post from 11/6/08, below:

In its recent report entitled, "Breaking the Grip? Obstacles to Justice for...

Last night, at a rally in Pittsburgh which I attended with my wife and two sons, Barack Obama ended his speech with an allusion to a famous quote by Frederick Douglass, telling the audience: "Don't believe for a second this election is over. Don't think for a minute that power...

During the last debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, Senator Obama took a firm stance against passage of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in light of the continued targeting of Colombian trade unionists for assassination and in light of the Colombian government's continued failure to prosecute these crimes....

As we have learned from the events of last week in which hard-working taxpayers were forced against their will to bail out Wall Street with at least $700 billion, free markets and free trade are only free to the rich; the rest of us are forced to pay dearly for...

For years, we've been told by the government and by the pundits that there is no money for national healthcare, no money for schools, no money for the levees, no money to fix bridges, no money for a decent public transportation system, no money to fully fund social security, and...

"Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are Free to Drink Martinis And Watch The Sun Rise . . ."

-- Bob Dylan, Hurricane
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It was the height of poetic irony that President Bush should be meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe...

Breaking: As Colombian President Alvaro Uribe arrives in Washington D.C. on September 19, his government continues to sink amidst the weight of the "para-political scandal" which has exposed his government's links to right-wing death squads -- death squads which have claimed thousands of civilian lives in that country. The latest...

On September 20, President Bush will be hosting Colombian President Alvaro Uribe at the White House. This meeting comes as the "para-political scandal" -- which has already implicated around 60 political allies of President Uribe in aiding and abetting the right-wing paramilitaries -- mounts in Colombia. This also comes as...

While the media and blogosphere have been preoccupied with the maternity issues surrounding Sarah Palin's family, a much more important news development occurred over the weekend. Sadly, almost no one bothered reporting about it.

To wit, according to a September 1, 2008 article in the Jerusalem Post (an article...

Though it has received scant press here, the Colombian media recently and enthusiastically reported that Jimmy Carter, after allegedly "resolving his anxieties" about the labor situation in Colombia, would champion Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's bid for the Colombian Free Trade Agreement (FTA) - an agreement which Democrats have forcefully opposed...

As Noam Chomsky had noted many years ago, the amount of U.S. military assistance to a particular country is, as a general rule, directly proportional to the level of human rights violations committed by that country's military. That maxim certainly holds true in the Western Hemisphere where the greatest...