The United Nations has added 68 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in ...

The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. Ahead of the 60th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, ...

In a recent nationwide review, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has uncovered alarming human rights violations, including mining tragedies, torture, rampant racism, and critical water ...

May 6 - 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 ...

Venezuela’s dictatorship is under more intense global scrutiny this week for both its human rights violations and multi-billion dollar corruption. The global watchdog Human Rights Watch has issued a ...

MTN is more widely known for the communication, education, and financial benefits its mobile and internet services bring to 19 African markets, but allegations of human rights violations due to ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — The New York State Division of Human Rights announced the resolution of complaints against the Brookhaven, Levittown, and Holbrook Fire Districts and Departments regarding the ...

Seoul is looking at the U.S.’s treatment of Korean citizens inside a detention center, and whether any of them was unfairly ...

This Q&A seeks to answer some common questions about reparations for Black people in the United States as a remedy for enslavement and its legacies, as a matter of human rights. 1. What are ...

When I first moved to Thailand in the 1990s to work with a small human rights organization, we waited for the annual U.S. State Department’s human rights report with bated breath. It was not because ...

Amnesty International on Monday condemned President Donald Trump’s executive order that significantly reduced funding for US-backed media outlets, including Radio Free Asia (RFA). The organization ...