Human rights

Could U.S. aid indirectly lessen the burden on Taliban officials? Most likely. But punishing the Afghan people for the sins of their rulers was never going to be a better alternative.

Every time you take action against hunger, you show the world that you care about the hungry.

A renown human rights investigator says there will be bad blood between Russians and Ukrainians even after the war finally ends.

Washington and Beijing have traded words and sanctions on human rights abuses in Xinjiang, but now the U.S. is transferring some of the burden onto the business community.

For me, Father's Day is a bittersweet reminder of my dad's love and his physical absence.

We are experiencing a major crisis in the price and supply of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food, or RUTF.

Amid the Ukraine War, the Russian Committee for the Prevention of Torture struggled as police arrested thousands of anti-war protesters.

Although COVID-19 exacerbated gender-based violence in garment factories, this abuse is endemic and urgently needs systemic change.

The time for action is now—if the world is to avoid cascading political instability in the Global South sparked by rising costs for ordinary people.

Global civil society must engage their counterparts in conflict zones like Russia-Ukraine to encourage narratives of peacebuilding to gain momentum.

On this Memorial Day, as we remember those who have been killed in war, think of ways to spare others the anguish of loss.

The explosive data dump comes as the U.N.'s top human rights official makes a six-day trip to China to visit regions including Xinjiang.

A disconnect between federal policy and community needs are at odds with Asian American safety concerns.

More than 3,000 Ukrainian civilians from Mariupol are being held, said a Ukrainian human rights official.

As if the erosion of democratic institutions since the pandemic was not enough, the war in Ukraine represented a further boost to the region's autocracy.

As Finland announced its support for joining NATO, Russia promised to take "retaliatory steps." Live updates have ended.

Russian claims that it evacuated Russian civilians from potentially dangerous areas in Ukraine's Donbas region.

The U.N. Human Rights Office has been seeking "meaningful access" to China's Xinjiang region over the past year.

Russia's "filtration camps" for Ukrainians and China's "education centers" for Uyghurs benefit from active disinformation campaigns from both countries.

This Easter, as part of festivities, you can donate to charities like the World Food Program, CARE, CRS, Mercy Corps, Action Against Hunger, Save the Children, Edesia and others fighting global hunger.

In a remarkable show of bipartisan cooperation, last week, the Senate unanimously reauthorized the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.

For the second year in a row, the United States assesses "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" are taking place against Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region.

Russia has revoked the registration of over a dozen human rights groups over "violations" of Russian law.

"The racist occupiers must bear the strictest responsibility!" said Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Lyudmila Denisova, of Russian soldiers.

On Thursday, 93 nations voted in favor of suspending Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council. China and 23 other nations voted against the suspension.

The U.N.'s General Assembly approved a resolution to suspend Russia from the council.

It is incumbent on the world to keep seeking accountability and to support survivors in rebuilding their lives.

Russians are also accused of mining the bodies of dead civilians after they left the Kyiv region.

Democracy and human rights are poison to a dictator's power.

China's tit-for-tat measures come 10 days after the United States imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials said to be responsible for the repression of religious freedom.