Human Rights Reporting

Spring 2005

Overtime? A Right to Organize? Unions Battle to Revive Membership and Restore Rights that Eroded in the 20th Century
By JoAnne Viviano

Days Among the Sweatshop Garment Workers, Learning the Fabric of Their Lives
By Amy Wu

New York’s Falun Gong Exiles Go Through the Motions But Have Scant Hope for Return to China
By Wendy Leung

Oladukon’s Plight: A Word in Anger Ends in Exile from America
By Ivan Karakashian

Spring 2004

Inside the Epidemic: Women's Experience of AIDS in Africa
By Melanie White

Interned But Not Forgotten: New museum chronicles Japanese-American life at Manzanar
By Chandra Conway

The Internet Arms Race: A Fight for Privacy
By Jennifer Esty

Behind the Big Mamas
By Jennifer Esty

Poisoned Indian Religious Artifacts a Relic of the Clash of Cultures
By Regina Woods

Spring 2003

The Long Journey to Peace: A true fairy tale of love in the time of Rwanda's genocide -- complete with magic beans
By Piya Kochhar

Fitting the Profile After 9/11: Muslim, Male and an Illegal Alien
By Seema Gupta

In post-9/11 crackdown, foreign researchers in high-tech fields find they may be barred from entering America
By Allison Hoffman

Surviving The Rwandan Genocide, Fighting For The International Criminal Court
By Camellia Rodriguez-SackByrne

Incarcerated Pacifist Shakes Israeli Peace Camp
By Itai M. Maytal

Spring 2002

Battered women can seek asylum in the United States -- but only if husband is a legal migrant
By Beena Ahmad

Women migrants fleeing "macho" cultures being recognized as legitimate, oppressed refugees
By Stephen Desroches

For his child’s sake, court gives immigrant facing deportation a chance to stay in America
By Kelli Edwards

A shot fired, a son slain; lives and livelihoods at risk as India's original tribes protest land takeover by multinational bauxite mining companies
By Raghuram Vadarevu

Experts fear for the mental health of the children among Australia’s detained boat people
By Roxanna Sherwood

Colombians lose the memory of a time without civil war; adjust to the inevitability of murder and kidnappings
By Roxanna Sherwood

"You belong to me" -- Rape and sexual abuse of women prisoners by guards and staff commonplace
By Ericka J. Souter

The arrest of journalist Peta Thornycroft: How Zimbabwe’s new press laws are threatening freedom of speech
By Tessa Van Staden

Spring 2001

Egyptian man spends 3 ½ years in prison, in solitary confinement, without charges or trial -- in America
By Adeel Hassan

Becoming Whole Again: Sierra Leonean amputees recapture their dignity
By Laura Angela Bagnetto

When confronted by the customs officer at JFK Airport, "I confessed I was Saikou Amadou Baldé, that I was from Guinea, and that I had fled because of persecution, and begged him not to send me back," the would-be refugee said.
By Katherine Cheng

"Eighteen-year-old Internet mail-order bride seeks husband, age 20-99" -- A new booming Web business
By Katherine Cheng

African-American advocates of slavery reparations encouraged by Holocaust payouts
By Amy Rubin

Aid worker must pick and choose who can be a legal refugee: "It’s like playing God. Sometimes I hate it."
By Amy Rubin

Paul Henri Thomas fled Haiti, where he organized student protests against the Duvalier regime. But now that he's here in New York, he's once again organizing -- this time to end his involuntarily hospitalization at Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center, where he is undergoing forced electro-convulsive therapy (ECT). Thomas said he would like to stop what he considers torture.
By Stacey Young

Artistic expression in Cuba on tortuous path: from ally of the revolution, to censored dissent, to uneasy current cohabitation
By Evan Serpick

Brooklyn Yemenis indignant over police raids to seize leaves of the stimulant khat
By Charles Mitchell