Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers ...

The office of Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff asserts it “identified 510 credible reports of human rights abuse” against ...

The elimination of key sections and the diminishment of others will deal a heavy blow to US leadership on human rights, serve the interests of authoritarian powers, and leave policymakers and ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights said it has launched an investigation into a Michigan health system over an alleged religious beliefs violation.

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations ... editors to cut down the number of examples of ...

Unfortunately, the violence on the streets of Nigeria only represents one example of human rights violations taking place across Africa, from mass displacements to abductions to terrorist attacks.

Fourteen current and former federal judges in Mexico filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights calling for "reparation for human rights violations" that they say were ...

The Council imposed restrictive measures on five individuals responsible for serious violations or abuses of human rights and for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition in Russia.

In our complex, interconnected world, there are risks of human rights violations throughout global supply chains. Examples include not only modern slavery and child labour, but also gender ...

In symbolic rulings, Moscow was again blamed for the downing of Flight MH17 in 2014 and for an array of war-related human rights violations, including the transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.

A monthslong investigation by the office of Sen. Jon Ossoff, compiled hundreds of alleged human rights violations at immigration detention centers.