The Human Rights Campaign is set to lay off approximately 20 percent of its workforce in a major restructuring effort in what the group's leadership said is to adapt to the evolving political and ...

The United States has a special interest in safeguarding the integrity of human rights because America is founded on the rights inherent in all persons, and the nation’s political traditions revolve ...

The Centre for Human and Socio-Economic Rights (CHSR) has condemned the appointment of Moshood Jimoh as the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2 Police Command, expressing serious ...

Conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center in the Everglades, are "inhumane and unsanitary," in some cases amounting to "torture," according to a new report. Why it matters: The ...

A coalition of 22 immigrants’ rights organizations participated today in a public hearing held by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), as part of the IACHR’s 195th session held in ...

Amnesty International pledged to redouble its efforts to expose human rights violations in Russia after Moscow labeled the group an "undesirable organization," effectively outlawing it and making it ...

The Saharawi Youth Union, advocating for the independence of Western Sahara, together with the International Service for Human Rights, urged the UN Human Rights Council on Monday to “take action” and ...

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, urge the UN Human Rights Council to urgently convene a special session to address an unprecedented escalation in mass unlawful killings of protesters, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora Lopez, handcuffed, holds a bible as police escort her out of her court hearing in San ...

When I first moved to Thailand in the 1990s to work with a small human rights organization, we waited for the annual U.S. State Department’s human rights report with bated breath. It was not because ...

At the UN Human Rights Council, Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) raised alarms over the misuse of Pakistan's blasphemy laws ...

The United States has quickly eroded human rights safeguards a year into the second Trump administration, according to Amnesty International. "What we are witnessing is a full-blown human rights ...