Officials in Pakistan say police have shot dead a blasphemy suspect during an alleged shootout with armed men in the southern province of Sindh, the second such apparent extra-judicial killing in a week, drawing strong condemnation from human rights gr...

A respected human rights organization in Belarus says dozens of teachers have been detained or interrogated by authorities as part of the country’s wide-ranging crackdown on dissent

The move will mean more kids, particularly those with special needs, will spend their entire childhoods in orphanages, a human rights expert says.

More than two decades ago, when gay men and lesbians were prohibited from serving openly in the U.S. military and no state had legalized same-sex marriages, a national LGBTQ+ rights group decided to promote change by grading corporations on their workplace policies.The Human Rights Campaign initially focused its report card, named the Corporate Equality Index, on en...

Venezuela's government is ramping up efforts to repress peaceful protests in the wake of President Nicols Maduro's disputed election win, according to a new report Tuesday that calls it a human rights crisis...

Independent U.N. human rights experts say Venezuela’s government has intensified the “harshest and most violent mechanisms of its repressive apparatus” in the wake of the disputed July presidential election

The United States on Monday placed sanctions on four individuals and citizens of eastern Europe's Georgia over accusations of human rights abuses and brutal crackdowns on peaceful protesters and political op...

The Biden administration is sanctioning two Georgian government officials and more than 60 individuals in the former Soviet state over human rights abuses and anti-democratic actions, part of ongoing fallout from the Georgian governments passage of a controversial foreign influence law. The announcement also comes ahead of next months pivotal election, in which pro-European opposition...

The U.S. is hitting more senior Georgian officials and others with sanctions for undermining the country’s democracy and violating basic human rights

Don't be fooled: the overtly political Human Rights Campaign, which has managed to ingratiate itself into so many segments of our culture, isn't going anywhere - not as long as Harris and her allie...

More than a dozen Senate Democrats are slamming President Biden for releasing $320 million in U.S. military assistance to Egypt despite what they call serious human rights concerns over the government in Cairo. It is the first time the Biden administration has decided to release the full amount of funds over the course of the...

The bill requires the U.S. president to 'remove the extension of certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices.'

The Treasury Department announced Thursday sanctions on 16 officials aligned with Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro for obstructing the country's presidential election while violating civil and human rights

The Treasury Department announced Thursday sanctions on 16 officials aligned with Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro for obstructing the country's presidential election while violating civil and human rights

From Fridays for Future and the Amazonian girls risking their lives to defend the rainforest, to those bravely resisting Iran's war on women, and the millions demanding an end to the carnage in Gaza, people young and old are resisting localized and globalized attacks on human rights.

Hundreds of people turned out at a beach in Washington for an evening vigil remembering Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the 26-year-old human rights activist from Seattle killed by the Israeli military during a protest in the occupied West Bank last week

SEATTLE (AP) For her 26th birthday in July, human rights activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi gathered friends for a bonfire at one of her favorite places, a sandy beach in Seattle where green-and-white ferries cruise across the dark, flat water and osprey fish overhead.On Wednesday night, hundreds of people traveled to the same beach in grief, love and anger to mourn her. Eygi was