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The US announced it was sanctioning Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other officials for human rights violations and restricting access to visas after protests.

Today the UN Human Rights Council firmly rejected Eritrea’s attempt to end scrutiny of its human rights situation. Council members decisively voted down the Eritrean government’s resolution to ...

Rubio’s plan would shutter most of the State Department’s offices devoted to human rights and lay off an estimated 80% of the DRL staff, most of whom are experts in human rights and democracy.

San Jose, Costa Rica, July 3, 2025 – The Advisory Opinion (OC-32/25) in response to the request by the Republics of Colombia and Chile was publicly read today by the President of the Inter-American ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, “persona non grata,” criticizing the U.N. official for failing to ...

The federal lawsuit aims to immediately stop immigration agents from conducting the military-style raids that have swept across L.A. in the last month.

Tennessee's new laws on immigration already face court challenges. Other states are changing gun laws or imposing new restrictions on transgender people.

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among the human rights violations in Venezuela cited in a United Nations ...

“There are many things that happened in this war that are clearly war crimes,” Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, says about Israel’s war on Gaza. Democracy ...

Several popular companies are facing boycott calls this month over workers’ rights and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy changes. The grassroots advocacy group The People’s Union USA has ...