Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For nearly half a century, the State Department has reported annually on human-rights conditions in countries around the world. The purpose of this exercise is ...

The State Department’s new report on human rights says nothing about corruption in government and the freedom of assembly, according to Human Rights Watch — thus, it gives a pass to authoritarian ...

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, in Atlanta, is expanding at a critical moment in the debate over how the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Over 770,000 people in the United States experienced homelessness in January 2024, an 18% increase from 2023 and the highest number since record-keeping began in 2007.

The execution came as Iran vowed to confront what it called its enemies after the United Nations reimposed sanctions on ...

As one of the most accomplished human rights barristers working today, Amal Clooney has built a remarkable reputation as a supreme defender of those who have suffered systemic abuse, particularly ...

It wasn’t until recently that experts began referring to the plastics problem explicitly in human rights terms. A primary turning point was a 2021 report from the United Nations’ special rapporteur on ...

In 2025, UNESCO released the publication Homeschooling through a Human Rights Lens, outlining the findings of a research ...

Countries such as Mexico, Brazil and Turkey most strongly support the idea of net access as a right, the survey found... More than 90% of those surveyed in Turkey, for example, stated that internet ...