Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has launched an appeal to raise USD 500 million for 2025 to address global human rights needs. Speaking in Geneva today, Turk stated that the UN ...

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Home Depot will pay a former employee $65,000 after settling a sexual harassment case brought by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. The DHR announced the agreement on Thursday, saying Home ...

The three-month pause in foreign aid imposed by the new US administration has left the future of numerous civil society, human rights and independent media projects in the Western Balkans in limbo.

Workers at Firestone's rubber farm in Liberia say that extracting natural rubber comes with a high human cost.

Human rights are not just words on paper. Advocates, social movements and government champions have brought much needed positive changes by pushing for the adoption of international human rights ...

Following Trump's lead, organizations including Walmart, Lowe’s and Meta, have announced they would scale back their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, ...

For a few hours last week, the International Criminal Court looked poised to take a Libyan warlord into custody. Instead, member state Italy sent the head of a notorious network of detention centers ...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall celebrated an executive order banning gender affirming ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government will retain a ban on asylum seekers being able to claim protections under ...

Human rights groups have accused U.S. authorities of using Guantánamo Bay for decades to detain migrants fleeing Haiti, Cuba ...