Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children with mental health conditions are living chained up in roughly 60 countries, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

Human rights lawyers launched a legal challenge on Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order imposing economic sanctions on employees of the world's permanent war crimes tribunal, ...

Hauwa, a 25-year-old woman, was lying on the floor, shackled, and barely alive when Human Rights Watch found her in November ...

From defending free speech to organizing locally, ACLU experts explain what actions actually work to hold the Trump ...

Egypt and Vietnam are on track to secure seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council despite being woefully unfit for ...

Free speech took center stage as advocates, lawyers and experts from around the world convened recently at Vanderbilty University in Nashville.

The volume and frequency of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights from Richmond International Airport ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department is quietly considering a proposal that would strip transgender Americans of their constitutional right to bear arms — a move historians say would be a ...

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GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. expert monitoring human rights in Russia said Monday that “repression is escalating,” targeting civilians, journalists and even Ukrainian prisoners of war in an attempt to silence ...

Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Director Kelly Garcia has resigned. Gov. Kim Reynolds' office announced the news Monday. At the same time, they announced Garcia's successor, Larry Johnson ...

Former NFL player Eric Johnson has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for human trafficking and pimping tied to a terrifying gang known as LOTTO. Johnson, a defensive back who played six years in ...