A panel of independent experts who make up the United Nations Human Rights Committee says they have found that Guatemala violated the rights of a 14-year-old girl who was raped and forced to ...

Yasmine al-Saleh has two occasions to celebrate this year: the Eid al-Adha holiday and her family’s return home after nine years in a notorious displacement camp in the Syrian desert.

AL-QARYATAYN, Syria (AP) — Yasmine al-Saleh has two occasions to celebrate this year: the Eid al-Adha holiday and her family’s return home after nine years in a notorious displacement camp in ...

Yet, as life gets better for LGBT people, the Human Rights Campaign declared a "national state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans!" "This is a crisis right now!" said HRC president Kelley Robinson.

Five human rights groups including Amnesty International challenged in court Hungary's legislation that created a legal basis for police to ban Pride marches by the LGBTQ community, the groups ...

In April 2024, the European Court of Human Rights issued a ground breaking ruling establishing protection from the effects of climate change as a human right under European law. The opinion ...

May 21 (UPI) --Activists, officials and defectors highlighted North Korean human rights violations at a high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, with many directly tying ...

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 ...

Jeanette Vizguerra, a Colorado immigration advocate being held in an Aurora detention facility, has been named a winner of an annual human rights award by a nonprofit set up in the late Robert F.

The 62-year-old Human Rights Commission was abolished by a bill passed by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. Bill Lee last week.

Mr. Posner is a lawyer and human rights advocate who was the assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor from 2009 to 2013. In the late 1980s, Joseph Nye, the Harvard ...

During the TIME100 Summit, Yulia Navalnaya discussed her human rights work and U.S.-Russia relations.