Human Rights

Last summer, as the United States and Vietnam finalized plans to upgrade the bilateral relationship,...

Since declaring a state of emergency in March 2022 following a surge in gang violence, El Salvador's...

BARRANCABERMEJA, Colombia — For sounding the alarm about water pollution in and around this industri...

TALLINN, Estonia — Russia's Supreme Court effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism on Thursday, the most...

MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine court on Monday ordered the release on bail of a former senator j...

Israel is coming under mounting criticism for its actions in Gaza where more than 11,000 people have...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on ...

Cheng Lei, an Australian journalist imprisoned in China, has been allowed to leave the country and i...

Overwhelmed with emotion after hearing that his wife, Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi...

Five years ago, Jamal Khashoggi — a Saudi dissident who lived in Virginia and wrote for the Washingt...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A retired teacher in Saudi Arabia was recently sentenced to death for ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — The Ethiopian government said Tuesday it will investigate a report by a human right...

MOSCOW — A Russian court has convicted and sentenced opposition leader Alexey Navalny to an addition...

Pakistan's military has fired three senior army officers for failing to prevent violent attacks on m...

MOSCOW — A Russian court sentenced a leading associate of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to 7 1/2 ...

At the Pride Fest in Santa Monica, Calif., six houses of worship — five churches and a synagogue — h...

Former President Donald Trump spoke to New Hampshire voters during a CNN town hall held at St. Ansel...

HONG KONG — Singapore on Wednesday executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery, despi...

A Moscow court sentenced on Monday Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in pr...

Randall Robinson, a human rights activist and lawyer known for his advocacy against South African ap...