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.

For America to function, we need to put people in charge again. Americans have always been “jealous of authority,” as Alexis de Tocqueville put it. The constitutional debates turned on whether the ...

The killing of a woman in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer on January 7 was unjustifiable, Human Rights Watch said today. Two videos of the incident shared on social media, verified by ...

The turbocharged events of the last week - and the new US National Security Strategy - raise pressing questions about the new ...

Objectives This scoping review addresses the underexplored issue of abuse of people with mental illnesses by healthcare ...

Responding to the Trump administration’s announcement that the United States is withdrawing from 66 international ...

The Venezuela attack represents the clearest example during Trump’s second presidency of a shift to an America exerting unilateral power based purely on perceived economic interests and military might ...

Situation has drastically deteriorated in occupied Palestinian territories since at least December 2022, warns UN Human ...

Kazakhstan's President Tokayev signed a law banning LGBTQ+ propaganda, amid local support, but also sparking activists' ...

The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK,” documents that the UK’s Labour government has failed to reverse sweeping ...

Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s ...

The commission’s recommendations challenge the foundations of Bangladesh’s security architecture. But implementing them will require political courage, judicial independence and a clear decision to pl ...