Human Rights
Eddie Canales on Saving Migrant Lives in Brooks County
What’s Next for Wendy Davis: A New Project Launch at SXSW
The former Texas state senator says her new venture, Deeds Not Words, will provide a "toolkit" for millennial women to tackle economic and social change....Read More
State of Black Austin Tied to Swiftly Gentrifying East Austin
Organizers of the second-annual State of Black Austin event say the city can't confront gentrification without confronting historic racial marginalization....Read More
Holding Back the Flood
For activists in the Valley’s colonias, success looks like a drainage ditch.
For activists in the Valley’s colonias, success looks like a drainage ditch....Read More
Health Agency to Press Forward with Licensing Child Detention Centers
The Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) has submitted a proposed rule that would create a new child care licensing category for detention center...Read More
Advocates: Asylum-Seeking Mom’s Seizures ‘Uncontrolled’ in Texas Detention Center
Susana Arevalo Hernandez and her kids were picked up by immigration officials during ramped-up raids in early January.
Immigration rights advocates say a Salvadoran woman detained after recently ramped-up ICE raids isn't getting the medical care she needs....Read More
No, Debbie Riddle, Trans People Don’t Just Need a ‘Mirror’
The state rep's suggestion that transgender Texans just need a mirror and self-awareness is typical of Riddle's anti-trans bullying, but we can't ignore it....Read More
The Texas Abortion Case, Explained
How a Texas law could undo 43 years of access to legal abortion in the United States.
While not explicitly challenging the constitutional right to an abortion, as Roe did, the HB 2 case has the potential to eliminate access to the right guarantee...Read More
I’m Leaving the Texas Civil Rights Project, but Not the Fight
The process of retiring from the Texas Civil Rights Project, which I founded 25 years ago, has given me the opportunity to reflect on my career as a human right...Read More
Guarding Against Self-Harm
Have you ever attempted suicide? Are you thinking of killing or injuring yourself today? Are you feeling hopeless or have nothing to look forward to? If you are...Read More