Category Archives: human rights

Champaign’s Attempt to Criminalize Homelessness Fails after Swift Public Outcry

Posted on 04/10/2026 by Brian Dolinar

This is an edited version of an article originally published in Smile Politely on January 26, 2026. On December 2, 2025, after two and a half hours of public comment from some 40 community members, Champaign City Council voted 9-0 … Continue reading →

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Belden’s Democratic Socialist Vision

Posted on 06/30/2025 by Pat Simpson

What are we to make of the current horrors of a globally ascendent authoritarianism, an authoritarianism bred in the toxic soil of neoliberalism and the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Latin America that sent desperate migrants knocking on … Continue reading →

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Belden Fields: Human Rights Scholar

Posted on 06/30/2025 by Walter Feinberg

Review Belden’s book Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millennium (2003), addresses a conflict among three human rights theories and provides a compelling synthesis of the three. According to The Declaration of Independence, “All men are created equal, . . … Continue reading →

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