SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco Pride weekend is almost here, and so many events are happening. On Thursday, the LGBTQ+ community is taking stock of its ongoing struggles and victories. It's all ...

Opposition leaders in the United Kingdom are calling for a human rights activist to be stripped of his citizenship over past ...

Seven in ten women human rights defenders, activists and journalists have experienced online violence in the course of their work, according to a new UN report.

Bissau’s military rulers are silencing dissent through arrests, violence and intimidation following the November 26 coup.

In accepting awards for their human rights work, activists from both Honduras and the United States presented a clear message: We are out of time. The Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive ...

A human rights activist said on Sunday that Syrian government forces and their affiliates were responsible for killing ...

Leila de Lima, a lawmaker with the Mamamayang Liberal Party and human rights activist, called for urgent measures to be taken to end the practice of red-tagging in the Philippines on Saturday. De Lima ...

(Berlin, April 30, 2025) – Turkish migration authorities should immediately suspend any plans to deport two detained Turkmen activists to Turkmenistan, Human Rights Watch said today. If deported they ...

The course of Jeri Laber’s life changed in December 1973 when the 42-year-old mother, wife, and part-time writer read a New Republic article describing the torture of political prisoners by ...

(Beirut) – Comedians performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival did not use their public platform to urge Saudi authorities to free unjustly detained Saudi dissidents, journalists, and human rights ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities announced Monday the discovery of the bodies of a human rights activist and her husband, six months after they were reported missing in the southern state of ...

Police in Uganda have arrested prominent human rights activist Sarah Bireete amid a widening crackdown on dissent ahead of the January 15 general election. The detention was confirmed by police in a ...