The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

For the first time in its 40-year history, the Human Rights Campaign has declared a “state of emergency” for LGBTQ+ Americans. Some may respond to the announcement with cynicism or indifference. What does it really do anyway? Well, the answer is not “nothing.” And those who fixate on whether the…

Administration set up after 2021 coup is also battling international indifference as conflict fades from headlines.

NEBAJ, Guatemala — Gabriel de Paz still dreams that he's running from the dictator's soldiers.

The U.N. says 110 million people in the world today have had to flee their homes because of conflict, persecution, or human rights violations

MIAMI — U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, with the bolstering of human rights activists and former political prisoners from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, accused the Biden administration of utilizing a tactic commonly found in dictator playbooks: Weaponizing the legal system to go after the president’s opponents.

WASHINGTON -- Visits to Saudi Arabia by high-profile U.S. officials are always problematic. The two countries have a love-hate relationship.

Secretary-general says the risks posed by artificial intelligence threatens democracy and human rights.

The whereabouts of hundreds of fighters on both sides of the Ethiopian war are still not known, despite truce.

The purchase of professional golf by a brutal regime has exposed yet again the lack of moral sanctities on the global free market, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik