"We have to keep working to make occupation [and] apartheid costly and make this kind of human rights violation costly for the offenders," says Issa Amro, a Palestinian activist who has been repeatedly assaulted and detained by Israeli settlers and soldiers.

After three years of genocide, "the IDF is still hunting Gazans," says Palestinian journalist Akram al-Satarri.

Israeli peace activist Maoz Inon, who lost both parents in the October 7 attack, says people in the region "deserve a different reality."

A quarter-century after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and five years since the return of the Taliban, what is the legacy of "America's longest war"?

"Students are outraged, not because they’re outraged solely at these seven men; they’re outraged at the system that the university perpetrates."

"Everybody in the human rights movement reveres Navi Pillay."

"She literally put her body on the line for seven years, which is how long she fought this eviction for."

Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly beat Lula 47% to 45% in the first round of Brazil's presidential election, setting up an October 25 runoff. The result shocked many, but "the momentum has been with the right since 2018," says Brazilian philosopher Rodrigo Nunes.

University students across the United States held a national day of action in solidarity with “Jane Doe,” the former Cornell student whose lawsuit alleging she was gang-raped in 2024 has reignited outrage over how campuses and local law enforcement handle sexual assault cases and fail survivors.

Navi Pillay’s career in international human rights law includes work as a defense lawyer for anti-apartheid activists, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, a former judge at the International Criminal Court and the U.N.’s high commissioner for human rights from 2008 to 2014.

Masked federal agents apparently posing as construction workers attempted to arrest 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in New York on Thursday.

"What happened to Jane Doe wasn't just the fact that she went to the Chi Phi house and seven men took advantage of her," says 18-year-old Cornell student Saya Taylor. "The entire system of Cornell University failed her."

This week marks 25 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. “During the 20 years of America’s longest war in Afghanistan, we could clearly see that failure was coming,” says journalist Emran Feroz, just back from a month of reporting in Afghanistan.

As the development of AI accelerates, more voices inside and outside the industry are warning that the technology poses major risks to humanity. The new film, "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist," features interviews with AI execs, researchers and critics who all voice similar concerns.

María del Carmen Abascal, better known as Maricarmen — the 87-year-old pensioner in Spain whose eviction from her lifelong home sparked nationwide protests — has died. Independent Spanish journalist María Carrión says evictions like Maricarmen's are “a daily occurrence” in Spain.

This week marks 25 years since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, the beginning of what would become the longest war in U.S. history. “The war on terror is not over,” says Afghan Austrian journalist Emran Feroz. “Airstrikes are still taking place ... conducted by the Pakistani military regime.“