human rights

On Tuesday, Costa Rica became the first country in Central America to legalize same-sex marriage, CNN reports.

Abortion and same-sex marriage have both been decriminalized in Northern Ireland, after a new law went into effect…

It does not happen very often these days that there is a positive story containing the words “America” and “refuge,”…

Kate Gilmore, the United Nations’ High Deputy Commissioner on Human Rights, recently spoke to the Guardian and cut…

Human rights campaigners are accusing Saudi Arabia of torturing several women’s rights activists using electrocution…

Weeks after Ireland voted to repeal its draconian abortion ban, Northern Ireland is one small step closer to doing…

Thanks to Jeff Sessions’s psychotic enthusiasm for separating children from parents at the Mexico border, we know…

Shortly following a White House visit by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who recently consolidated power for…

Rex Tillerson, former oil man with no diplomatic experience and current Secretary of State, has finally cobbled…

The music video for “Hwages,” roughly translated as “concerns,” has been viewed about 3.2 million times since its…

The rebel stronghold in east Aleppo is foundering as the Syrian Army advances, executing civilians and spraying the…

On December 19, 2016, Texas will put into effect regulations requiring that all fetal remains be cremated or buried.…

Konni Burton, a Texas Tea Party state senator, has proposed a bill that would lawfully require school employees to ou…

In a most unusual role reversal, Hamilton could be in trouble over a casting call that seeks “non-white” actors and…

A newscaster for PressTV, Iran’s state-run, English-language TV station, has fled the country after revealing she…

The Human Rights Foundation has asked Nicki Minaj to cancel a performance scheduled for Saturday in Luanda, the…

Ensaf Haidar hasn’t seen her husband since 2012, but “the nightmare” as she calls it, began eight years ago, when…

A woman applying for asylum in Israel, who says she was persecuted in her home country of Ghana for being a lesbian,…

On Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration released an $18 million plan that will, starting next year,…

The New York Times has spent the better part of a year conducting a fairly groundbreaking investigation of labor…