In "The Human Rights Sequence Theory of Atrocity: A Comparative Analysis," the researchers use data from annual human rights ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. It contains graphic and disturbing accounts of sexual violence. For information about how the series is ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — Palestinians described alleged abuses by Israeli forces and settlers — punched in the genitals, held for days while naked, starved — to independent U.N.-backed human rights ...

Influencers are a "new threat" to isolated tribes, and attempts to contact them are human rights abuse, according to a charity. US Citizen and social media influencer, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, ...

The State Department is pushing back against criticism of its changes to the process of reporting human rights abuses. NPR reported last week that the Trump administration was scaling back annual ...

The Trump administration released its new, drastically scaled-down version of the State Department’s annual human rights report after months of delay Tuesday. The administration’s assessment of human ...

LIMA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Peru President Dina Boluarte signed a law on Wednesday pardoning military and police officers accused of human rights abuses committed from 1980 to 2000 during a bitter fight ...

Congratulations on your appointment as the African Union Special Envoy for the Sahel. Your assumption of this role comes at a pivotal moment for a region grappling with deteriorating security, ...

We are writing on behalf of a coalition of rights groups and trade unions to express deep concern around the lack of transparency and rights protections in the forthcoming Free Trade Agreement between ...