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Research and undercover interviews reveal reality of extreme heat exacerbated by abusive working conditions

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi's family accuses Iran of risking her life by delaying cancer diagnosis and treatment in prison.

Rubio, alongside Rep Jim McGovern (D-MA), co-sponsored the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2020

Inhumane labor practices, worker deaths, and the forced eviction and repression of local residents have characterized the kingdom's efforts to build a miles-long linear skyscraper in the desert.

The head of a U.N.-backed fact-finding team looking into human rights violations and abuses in Sudan said Friday it found the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces responsible for large-scale sexual violence in areas that it controls

The United States, Germany and France have called for the release of a Chinese human rights lawyer and his wife who were sentenced to prison this week

Former police officers sentenced for the murder of Brazilian councilwoman Marielle Franco, a champion for human rights and social programs. Justice served,...

U.N.-backed human rights experts say Russia’s torture of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war is a crime against humanity

The U.N. Security Council has voted to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Western Sahara for another year Thursday with Algeria refusing to vote in protest at the resolution’s failure to include a reference to monitoring human rights in the disputed north African territory