Africans everywhere should show interest in the outcome of the African Union’s elections for its human rights institutions.

The head of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s panel of independent vaccine advisers recently questioned the necessity of the polio ...

Activists say that at least 6,126 people were killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests and many more are still ...

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief urged the Trump administration on Friday to ...

The human rights organization's report listed 12 "alarm bells" of the administration’s practices a year since Donald Trump ...

Philippe Sands, one of the world’s pre-eminent human rights attorneys, grew up in the shadow of bleak times. He worries that ...

Amnesty International published a report on Tuesday, warning of rising authoritarianism in the US and detailing numerous ways in which the rule of law and basic rights are being threatened. The ...

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, urge the UN Human Rights Council to urgently convene a special session to ...

Australia passed new laws that expand government authority to ban hate groups and impose tougher penalties for hate crimes.

Political opposition leaders in the United Kingdom have called for a human rights activist to be stripped of his citizenship over past social media posts allegedly containing violent and antisemitic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who was in prison for almost all of the past 12 years, speaks to his friends at ...