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New York's Condom Bait-and-Switch

Department of Health hands them out, NYPD arrests people for carrying them. Is this about improving public health—or arrest numbers?

New York's Condom Bait-and-Switch

Department of Health hands them out, NYPD arrests people for carrying them. Is this about improving public health—or arrest numbers?

Catch a World's Worth of Activist Thrills at the Human Rights Watch Film Fest

Sit down for justice

Love Is a Battlefield at the Human Rights Watch Film Fest

This Week's Voice: Summer Jam 2010, Christina Aguilera, Against Me!, Bret Easton Ellis, and More

Nicki Minaj, in one of many "invincible Street Fighter 2 character" outfits. Photo by Santiago Felipe​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla keeps a running diary of Summer Jam 2010, where the best highlight Hot 97 could muster was a set from DJ Khaled. What happened, New York? Elsewhere, ... More >>

Giving Voice to the Cause, the Rallying Cry of Human Rights Watch

Jennifer Aniston on the Baby Food Diet; Child Farmworker Numbers Still High in the U.S.

​Arizona's new anti-immigration legislation has provoked boycotts of products from the state and concerns among hospitality operators. The city councils in Flagstaff and Tucson voted to sue the state over the law, which is sure to have a negative impact on tourism. [Nation's Restaurant News] ... More >>

Truth and Tragedy at "Human Rights Watch 2009" Festival

This Week in the Voice

After a lifetime of political hackery, former city councilmember Noach Dear, who had never even practiced law, became a municipal judge. Who knew he'd become a savior to hundreds of New Yorkers harassed and dunned by unscrupulous and sometimes crooked debt collectors? And that he'd get standing ova ... More >>

Sri Lankan Government Responds to Alleged M.I.A. Slur: "It's Best That She Stay With What's She's Good At"

Yesterday the Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary, Dr. Palitha Kohona, appeared on the Tavis Smiley show to refute what were allegedly "misinformed" remarks made by M.I.A. on Smiley's show in January. "Being the only Tamil in the Western media," she said then, "I have a really great opportunity to bring ... More >>

U.N. (But Not the U.S.) Comes Out Big for Gay Rights

Voice Adds Cred to Brad Pitt Column

Daily Flog: Warning to whitey, desired streetcars, soiled Lennon, two Georgias, Target practice

Voice Choice: Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

The Political Is Personal at the Human Rights Watch Fest

Putting a human face on global atrocity

A RIGHT TO BE SCREENED

Bringing humanity back to film

Busting the Merchant of War

The Bush administration finally nails a notorious supplier to terrorists—after he spent 30 years hiding in plain sight

The Whole World in Our Hands

Activist fest takes on global warming, suburban sprawl and, as if war weren't enough, AIDS in Iraq

Brutal Chain of Command

Harsh light from the Supreme Court on White House war crimes against detainees everywhere

Progressive Scan

In fragments and on the edge, the HRWIFF remains New York's most vital fest

'Long Knives Night/ Reporting From the Rabbit Hutch'

The CIA's 'Black Sites'

What are we going to do with the secret prisoners who cannot be tried in our courts?

Morning Report 12/3/05
Murderous Maniacs in Fallujah

The Squeeze Is On

The Broken Constitution

More eyewitnesses to U.S. torture of detainees pierce the Bush administration's cover-up

Morning Report 9/27/05
Win Some, Lose Many

Morning Report 9/24/05
U.S. Soldiers Reveal New Torture Tales

Rights and Wronged

Global fest looks at sectarian violence, teen labor, and—for the first time—the Iraq war

Latin Quarter

South American HRW docs confront the ethics of filmmaking

Jah Division

Free speech, cultural sovereignty, and human rights clash in reggae dancehall homophobia debate

Morning Report 12/30/04
Bush Misoverestimates It

The North Face

Photo Ops

Docs about Calcutta slums, 9-11 detainees, and gay marriage evoke the power of images

The Sudan Genocide

Arab Muslims Are Viciously Killing and Raping Black Muslims. So Where Is the World?

Torturegate

The first press-generated scandal since that two-bit burglary at the Watergate

Iraq's Children of the Bomblet

A year later, remembering the deadliest weapon

In Castro's Gulag—Librarians

Abandoned by the American Library Association

Lost and Bound

There Is No Quarter

Conflicts of Interest

Regarding the Pain of Others

Child Prisoners at Guantánamo

The kids are not alright

The American Way of Torture

'If We're Not in the Room, Who Is to Say?'

Defending Your Life

Rough Justice

Behind the Barricades

Portraits of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Material Witnesses

Blood on the Tracks

U.S. Allies in Afghanistan Left Trail of Atrocities

Journey Through Debtor’s Prison

Stephanie Black Chronicles Jamaica’s IMF Woes

Immigrant Minors

Despite public and political outcry for one child, thousands of others face detention

Rights and Wrongs

PEN Is Mightier With the Net

E-mail From Jail: Imprisoned Writers Get a Boost From Online Activism