Traces of paradise are still visible. From the air, the rainforest region in northern Ecuador--known as the Oriente--appears as silvery mist and swaths of verdant green.

But beneath the cloud cover and canopy, the jungle is a tangle of oil slicks, festering sludge, and rusted pipeline. Smokestacks sprout from the...

I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the soul's history...

It is hard to believe more than seven years have passed since the Bush administration launched the unfortunately named Global War on Terror -- insisting that any country wanting to remain an ally sign up.

We have had time to reflect on that strategy, and all evidence...

On behalf of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, I congratulate the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in their historic victory reaching an agreement with McDonald's to assure the human rights of farmworkers working in McDonald's supply chain.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, this small group of farmworkers from southwest...

NEW YORK, Dec (IPS) The military junta that ran Argentina during the late 1970s and early 1980s thought nothing of keeping its naval officers in close proximity to the thousands of dissidents tortured and executed for opposing the regime.

Just how close became shockingly clear to me last year during...

I spent several years interviewing human rights defenders around the world about the quality of courage for the book Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World, which has since grown into a theatrical presentation, a touring photographic exhibition, an education and advocacy packet, and an...