Human rights

An overwhelming, bipartisan majority of Americans support actual spending levels on aid.

The executions may increase pressure on Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to take a harder line on China in the coming weeks ahead of expected snap elections.

Her poor performance as Zimbabwe's sports minister and her leaning into the role of the soft face of Zimbabwe's brutal regime should disqualify her to lead the Olympics.

Will the world finally speak up and do something before it's too late?

President Donald Trump should prove his words were more than an empty campaign promise.

While the U.S. criminal justice system is far from perfect, addressing its shortcomings requires reform, not abdication of responsibility.

Drawing on data from the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, Newsweek has created this map to show countries on the Human Rights Watchlist.

Kingdom Criticized Over Human Rights Records

Thailand deported 40 Uyghurs to China despite appeals from the United States and from rights groups that feared they would be abused.

The bodies of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas, an Israeli mother and her two young sons abducted on October 7, are to be buried in a private funeral ceremony on Wednesday.

U.N. Security Council sanctions ban the use of North Korean labor, over concerns remittances fuel Kim Jong Un's nuclear and missile programs.

President Donald Trump has the ability to spark positive change in the lives of Iraq's persecuted Assyrian Christians.

We are pushing for strong government regulation of mining to protect communities and the environment.

GITMO has the potential to become the stage for some of the worst war crimes in modern history.

We need strong pushback from Congress against the cynical agenda of this administration and all of us must fight with cross-movement solidarity for the rights and equality of all. We are stronger together.

President Donald Trump said that he wants to be a peacemaker and stop all wars during his second administration. He can begin by honoring his campaign promise to hold Azerbaijan accountable and stop the violence directed toward the Armenian people.

There is a veritable roadmap to environmental salvation.

I regret to inform you that this hollowing out of our government will result in dire consequences.

Christians have been part of the opposition in Syria since the domestic war started in 2011.

President Donald Trump has begun his rampage on reproductive rights, and it's as bad as we expected.

It is entirely unclear whether this previously cozy relationship will become transactional—or frosty.

23 states received the lowest classification from the Human Rights Committee.

"We just clean out that whole thing and say, 'You know, it's over,'" the new president said to reporters on Air Force One.

The Anfal genocide, one of modern history's darkest chapters, claimed 182,000 Kurdish, Assyrian, Shabak, Turkman, Yazidi, and Mandean lives and destroyed 4,500 villages.

President Alexander Lukashenko has taken measures to limit opposition and reduce the likelihood of protests.

Ukraine has shared video of what it says shows North Korean troops captured in Russia's Kursk region.

Thousands of refugees attempting to escape the Taliban's rule could be left unaided due to President Trump's executive order enforcing a 90-day ban.

Mother Debra Tice says she has renewed faith in the U.S. government's efforts to locate her son, who has been missing for thirteen years.

Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Israel and what remains of Hamas in Gaza have reached a ceasefire deal that will take effect on Sunday.

May every American have the strength to discern disinformation, rally for truth, and take action to stop the spread of lies for the safety of everyone.