NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Ofelia Riquezes, human rights lawyer and professor at Florida International University, about ...

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

Guan Heng, who exposed human rights abuses in his native China, has been in U.S. custody since being swept up in an ...

By Olivia Le Poidevin and Emma Farge GENEVA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session ...

The fallout from the US attack on Venezuela and the focus on oil interests have largely eclipsed urgent concerns about the ...

Erfan Soltani, a 26-year-old Iranian man, has been sentenced to death in Iran amid widespread protests and a deadly ...

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

Global lawyers are expressing serious concern over threats to the legal profession and judiciary in the United States. To highlight the plight of human rights lawyers in the U.S., over 40 legal ...

Iran’s representative to the UN, while not recognizing the session’s legitimacy, claimed that of the recognized 3,117 people ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed accomplished civil rights attorney Christine Clarke to lead the city’s Commission on Human ...

The town of Uvira, in DR Congo’s South Kivu Province, continues to be a scene of serious human rights violations following ...

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 29: Protesters attend a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court held by the group Our Children’s Trust October 29, 2018 in Washington, DC. The group rallied in support of the ...