The last survivors of that catastrophe warn of the dangers of prioritizing rearmament over diplomacy at a time when nuclear tensions remain high. A charred shoe worn by a seven-year-old girl; human ...

El Salvador journalist Monica Rodriguez, left, and her husband Steve Magaña, an activist, both of whom left the country ...

MEXICO CITY — Leading human rights activist, Ruth López, has been arrested in El Salvador, after the Attorney General's office accused her of embezzlement of state funds. López leads the anti ...

Every spring, since the late 1970s, the State Department has released the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. This year, those waiting for these documents will have to hold on a bit longer.

The shortfalls of measuring a country’s headway using GDP is an issue of rising importance on global agendas and was a clear recommendation in the 2024 Pact for the Future, a UN declaration that ...

Chinese legislation that allows the authorities to broadly restrict people’s right to exit the country under vague claims of national security do not meet these standards, Human Rights Watch said.

South Korea’s government fabricated birth records, falsely reported children had been abandoned and failed to properly conduct safety checks of prospective parents during its postwar frenzy of ...

András Léderer from Hungary's oldest and largest human rights group, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, told NPR that the State Department's new policy weakens the position of human rights ...