Human Rights

A bill authored by Rep. Betty McCollum passed the U.S. House on Wednesday after being included in the Foreign Relations Authorization Act. It’d work to end child marriage by increasing State Department staffing on the issue and direct the federal government to create a strategy to work with other countries to decrease the incidence of [...]

Minneapolis City Councilman Cam Gordon writes on his Second Ward blog about the city’s resolution supporting this week’s Human Rights Torch Relay between the University of Minnesota and the state Capitol: “This is part of an international effort to help raise awareness about and change the inhumane, unjust and oppressive practices of the Chinese government… [...]

Part Two: ATK’s Cluster Bombs Kill Civilians, Rights Groups Charge
The widening controversy over an Edina-based munitions firm extends from the suburbs of Minneapolis to the capital of Canada to battlefields of Lebanon and Iraq.
ATK, formerly known as Alliant Technology Systems, won unwelcome headlines following its January acquisition of two divisions of the Canadian defense firm [...]

Fifty-nine years ago Monday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a radical document predicated on the belief that “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the  world.”  Today, [...]