Human rights

Selling $650 million worth of arms to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia seems to contradict Biden's campaign promises about changing the foreign policy status quo.

Transgender Awareness Week was observed from November 13-19 as a one-week celebration leading up to the Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20.

A massive scorched-earth campaign is underway in northwest Myanmar. Reports of massacres and images of smoke billowing from houses are shocking social media.

International Men's Day was inaugurated in the late 1990s in the Caribbean region before it spread to several other parts of the world.

The Biden administration has upheld the determination that China's treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang amounts to "genocide."

"This is a landmark victory for workers' rights and basic human dignity," Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said.

The SBCC alleged that Border Patrol's Critical Incident Investigative Teams may have protected officers from punishments for crimes such as murder, sexual assault, and physical abuse.

Joe Biden wrote a letter to Congress saying Ethiopia was in "gross violations of internationally recognized human rights" as scores of people starve to death.

The U.S. official urged the military force to refrain from violence when handling the protesters.

China's abuse of Uyghurs is longstanding and calls to mind some of the darkest chapters in human history.

The Twitter account of the U.S. Congressman was suspended after he intentionally mislabeled Levine a "man."

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute's report reveals the vast system behind seven years of suspected oppression.

As Libya is not considered a safe port by the U.N. refugee agency or the European Union, the captain was convicted on abandonment-related charges.

A Tokyo court has agreed to summon Kim Jong Un to answer for the allegations of human rights abuse against the five individuals while they lived in North Korea.

Once the tribes receive their lands, the federal department in charge of managing tribal resources—the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)—should be entirely eliminated.

UEI has employed Uyghur workers at its Qinzhou, China plant since at least 2019 and sells its software and equipment to Sony, Samsung, LG and Microsoft.

Real progress—a reduction in prevalence of human trafficking—requires that we move upstream to confront the root causes of the problem.

"Sometimes, when I'm asleep at night, they've sprayed," said Jean Cleophat, a Haitian man who suffers from asthma and has been detained since late 2020.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said her office was compiling its own report into the alleged rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

What the EU Commission wants is a homogeneous European population, without strong ethnic identities and even weaker regional characteristics.

"If we were informed of the truth about North Korea, none of us would have gone," said one victim of a resettlement program for Korean residents of Japan.

As the world and people, we must stay with Afghans, in and out of Afghanistan. Trying to prevent this man-made disaster is not benevolence, it is salvaging our own humanity.

We hope and pray that President Joe Biden will make the right decisions and not throw Iraq—especially Assyrians and Yazidis—to the wolves.

Within the Taliban, factions hold views on how the country should be ruled, ranging from moderate to extreme. This could pull the group apart.

A person granted asylum gains permission to remain on the territory of the asylum country and protection from being forced to return to the country they fled.

The Taliban, the militant group that ruled Afghanistan in the late 1990s, vowed it will "honor and create a peaceful and secure environment" in its new era.

Azra Jafari says the Taliban's promise of maintaining women's rights are "empty words."

The Afghan-born author fears for the Afghan people, "particularly the women and children who suffered the most the last time the Taliban ruled this country."

"All of us have seen the images in real-time: chaos, unrest, uncertainty and fear," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said.

The international community should remain vigilant, and even in the absence of viable alternatives, hold Iranian leaders accountable for their actions rather than be impressed by empty gestures or meaningless maneuvers.