Six University of Rochester students started a hunger strike Oct. 15, demanding the school acknowledge and take steps to distance itself from the starvation and displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.

After 38 days, UC Berkeley lecturer Peyrin Kao suspended his hunger strike. Kao was protesting the war on Gaza and “the use of tech in Israel’s genocide in Gaza” earlier this week. Kao, a lecturer in ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A Cuban man deported by the United States to the African nation of Eswatini is on a hunger strike at a maximum-security prison having been held there for more than three ...

A prominent Cornell law professor plans to file a federal civil rights complaint against the Ivy League university after the outing of an Israeli student whistleblower who claimed he was excluded from ...

WATSONVILLE — More than two weeks since his 30-day fast to protest the continuing use of pesticides in the Pajaro Valley came to a close, Omar Dieguez said a major focus has been “getting (his) energy ...

The regime in Iran was described as being on an "unprecedented execution spree" by the United Nations. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said the Islamic Republic of Iran ...