A historian faces the possibility of imprisonment in Poland under an outrageous censorship law redolent of France or Turkey, but much broader.

Regardless of whether the Polish government charges Professor Gross, it is guilty of contempt of human rights.

Homeless teenagers in Delhi publish a newspaper.

(I don't want to call teenagers "children" because I think that will support the idea of limiting their rights.)

Campaigners against the death penalty in Georgia hold a vigil every time someone is executed.

I have never understood the idea that execution is wrong specifically and only for people who are mentally deficient. I think the death penalty is wrong in all cases — for the mentally deficient, for geniuses, and for people of average intelligence.

Obama should support the Palestinians' Security Council resolution.

The Israeli right wing attacks human rights organizations because it is hostile to the general idea of rights that everyone deserves.

The Israeli population is becoming ever more right-wing, nationalist, and opposed to equal respect for human rights.