A Human Rights Watch report says that ICE raids and the targeting of political enemies shows a shift toward authoritarianism ...

The transgender rights movement has been on the wrong track for several years now, and the wake of physical, emotional and cultural harm it’s leaving behind is difficult to quantify. Many are now ...

Global human rights deteriorated sharply in 2024, with more than 60% of countries receiving failing grades in an annual watchdog report released Thursday, reflecting what researchers called a ...

The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for Women's Rights was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14 ...

The United States has been publishing reports on human rights practices in other countries since 1977. Initially, only countries receiving foreign U.S. assistance were covered. Today, all countries ...

In a 2014 joint interview, former Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia were asked a pressing legal question about immigrant rights. Do the five freedoms mentioned in the First ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at age 13 ...

Atlanta — A popular historical museum in Georgia is expanding at a critical moment in the debate over how the story of the United States is told. Critics of the Trump administration say it is using ...

How can the United States successfully promote human rights and democracy in the multi-polar and deeply divided world the country now faces? The Reagan administration’s approach, in which I was deeply ...