On January 2, the Supreme Court ordered political parties to include persons with disabilities in their proportional ...

Khan says that to strengthen its efforts in 2026, FHRADC plans to hire qualified staff and hold stakeholder consultations to ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Ofelia Riquezes, human rights lawyer and professor at Florida International University, about the status of human rights under the Maduro regime in Venezuela.

Amnesty International, together with 13 civil society organizations, called on candidates in Benin's upcoming legislative and presidential elections on Thursday to prioritize human rights protection ...

Kansas leaders approved a $12,000 payment for a former prison employee, settling a case accusing the state corrections ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani continued with his string of administrative appointments on Wednesday, announcing a longtime civil ...

Civic space continues to shrink in Benin with a wave of attacks on independent media outlets and people still being arbitrarily arrested and detained for dissent. Despite progress, women and ...

In 2025, Georgia enacted a landmark reform that lowers the burden of proof for intellectual disability in death penalty cases ...

Health and medicine is more than just biological—societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani named Christine Clarke as the new human rights commissioner during a press conference ...

Mayor Mamdani appointed a new head of the city’s Commission on Human Rights, picking Christine Clarke, previously a litigator ...

The mental health industry watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) welcomed a major review that ...