Over time, societies have come to recognize an increasing number of various basic rights. The United Nations states that ...

Ending violence against women and girls was one of the main messages of the rally in Belfast held on International Women's ...

Readers respond to a guest essay by Jennifer Finney Boylan and an editorial. Also: “Sorry” about America; lying to children.

Thailand acted in accordance with human rights when it sent 40 Uyghurs back to China last week, Prime Minister Paetongtarn ...

Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, ...

A victim of a Winter Park hate crime, now an activist, writes, “There has never been a more important time, in modern history ...

On Friday, a South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers were killed when a U.N. helicopter trying to evacuate them from ...

Police Commissioner Kevin Blake is positioning lawmen as human rights activists amid a row between The Jamaica Constabulary ...

It’s been a deeply sobering and troubling few weeks for people who care about the future of human rights, democracy, and the ...

From the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo, women and girls’ rights have suffered serious setbacks. But ...

The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...

March 8 marks International Women’s Day. It is a day when women receive flowers, chocolates and cards. However, women deserve ...