A woman holds a placard saying, “Abolish patriarchal surveillance of women” during a protest to demand safe and legal access to abortion on May 14, 2022. By Julia Conley / Common Dreams Joined by national reproductive rights groups, a physician-led advocacy organization in Ohio is pushing a county prosecutor to drop a felony charge against Brittany Watts, a woman who suffered a miscarriage in September, saying it’s entirely in the attorney’s power to stop a grand jury case in which the odds are
At the International Court of Justice, the post-apartheid government called for an expedited hearing on Israel's actions and provisional measures to prevent further harm to Palestinians.
By Julia Conley
Common Dreams
No one knows apartheid like those who fought it before," said one Palest
Severe problems with water supply in West Bank and Gaza, February 2014 via By Julia Conley / Common Dreams Among the crises the U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment of Gaza has inflicted on the enclave’s roughly 1 million children since October is a worsening shortage of safe drinking water, which the United Nations Children’s Fund said Wednesday is posing an increasingly “dramatic” threat to children. UNICEF warned that displaced people who have fled northern Gaza to the blockaded enclave’s southern
By Sonali Kolhatkar In January 2023, nearly a year before the latest United Nations climate conference began, there was deep concern and alarm over the head of…
"Rushing deadly weapons to the far-right and openly genocidal Israeli government without congressional review robs American voters of their voice in Congress," said one critic. By Julia Conley / Common Dreams https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/10/moral-insanity-biden-admin-bypasses-congress-to-rush-tank-shells-to-israel/ Hours after United States Ambassador Robert Wood on Friday acted alone to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in…