(Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s omission of key sections and manipulation of certain countries’ rights abuses degrade and politicize the 2025 US State Department human rights report, ...

Demonstrators wave the American flag during a civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. on June 17, 1963. Demonstrators wave the American flag during a civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. on June 17, 1963 ...

Earlier this month, Professor of History and Africana Studies Keisha Blain published her new book, “Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights.” In the book, Blain explores how Black ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits nearby as U.S. President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House on April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits nearby as U.S. President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House on April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC.

In just one week, President Donald Trump has launched the most systemic and aggressive assault on human rights in U.S. presidential history. While the first Trump administration made similar attempts ...

On October 18, 2004, President George W. Bush signed into law the North Korean Human Rights Act. The president’s statement, issued on his signing of the law, said the legislation “provides us with ...

Every spring, since the late 1970s, the State Department has released the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. This year, those waiting for these documents will have to hold on a bit longer. The ...