human rights

A group of people in military uniforms walking indoors, with a mix of camouflage and orange-brown patterns.
Leaders
The future of Burkina Faso’s democracy is in question 
Israel-Hamas war
Counting the civilian death toll in Gaza
5:57
Israel-Hamas war
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for leaders from Hamas and Israel
5:12
A buffalo grazes on the drenched land in the Cardamom Mountains, southwest Cambodia.
Human rights
‘It’s a lose-lose situation’: Carbon ‘offset’ project in Cambodia accused of human rights violations
Children stand in front of the building of the Peruvian Congress as part of a call to demand accountability for cancer patients in Peru, September 2023.
Health & Medicine
Desperate cancer patients in Peru look for options across the Atlantic
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter Gaza Strip from Egypt in Rafah as a temporary ceasefire went into effect, Nov. 24, 2023.
Israel-Hamas war
‘We’re bracing for what comes after’ the truce, MSF Gaza director says
Native American supporter Deborah Theodore, left, of Belmont, Mass., and her daughter, Sofia Theodore-Pierce stand by the statue of Massasoit on Cole's Hill in Plymouth, Mass., during the 35th National Day of Mourning, Nov. 25, 2004.
Justice
Thanksgiving stories gloss over the history of US settlement on Native lands
Under the suspicion of drug consumption, police officers frisk a group of migrants at a camp on a street in downtown El Paso, Texas, April 30, 2023.
Violence
Report: Human rights abuses by US immigration officials are rampant at the southern border
Malala Yousafzai pointing at a poster advertisement of her documentary, "Stranger at the Gate."
Conflict & Justice
‘There is hope’: Malala Yousafzai promotes tolerance, connection with new documentary
Protesters hold a banner with a message that reads in Spanish: "Duque, stop the massacres," directed at Colombia's President Ivan Duque, as they march to Bolivar Square in Bogotá, Colombia, Wednesday, May 12, 2021.
Critical State
Discourse of justice: Part I
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi holds a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Khartoum, Sudan
Free speech
New restrictive regulations in Egypt will shut down access to independent information, legal director says
Green WhatApp icon surrounded by other apps on a smart phone
Social media
WhatsApp sues Indian government over unconstitutional internet laws, privacy encroachment
A woman weeps while holding a picture of her dead son, with a hand to her cheek, and eyes closed.
Critical State
The stuff of life and death: Part I
Farmworkers wearing hats gather spinach from a field.
Human rights
As temperatures heat up, farmworkers across the US push for more rights
The stories of women ostracized by their family and community after being wrongly accused of witchcraft can be heard on a new album called "I've forgotten now who I used to be." 
Music
New album lifts up the voices of ostracized women in northern Ghana’s ‘witch camps’
A demonstrator displays a picture of the defaced image of the commander in chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, also chairman of the State Administrative Council to protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, Feb. 17, 2021. The UN expert on human
Human rights
UN Human Rights Council starts work to address a ‘pandemic of human rights abuses’
A person paints a sign that says "I can't breathe" on a wall with a purple background.
Human rights
Public art honoring Egyptian American Moustafa Kassem sends universal human rights message
Children play in a mud puddle in the section for foreign families at Al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria on March 31, 2019.
Displacement
Thousands of children are stranded at a camp in northern Syria. Who will repatriate them?
Different types of chocolate bars are seen in the company supermarket at the Nestle headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, Feb. 19, 2010. Nestle, the world's biggest food group, is aiming for higher underlying sales growth in 2010 after a robust performance
Human rights
Big chocolate companies use child labor. Can a 1789 US law hold them accountable for violations abroad?
A woman wearing a white shirt signs a black silhouette during a demonstration for mothers of enforced disappearances
Conflict & Justice
In Mexico, the unending drug war takes its toll with thousands of disappearances 
Fedex Field, home of the Washington's NFL team in Landover, Maryland, is seen from Air Force One,  2013.
Sports
Washington NFL team retires racial slur from its name and logo
A huge crowd of protesters in Mali with one person raises his arms high in the air
Protest
Protesters in Mali call for president to step down
A woman stands at a memorial.
Justice
25 years after Srebrenica massacre, int’l crimes are still difficult to prosecute
Pakistani truck-art painter Haider Ali, 40, touches up a mural depicting George Floyd in Karachi, Pakistan, June 12, 2020.
Conflict & Justice
Black and South Asian communities find solidarity in fight against racism
A group of four people sit in red chairs in an elegant room with green and gold-starred walls
Human rights
UK sanctions on Russians, Saudis are a ‘milestone’ for human rights, advocate says
An ethnic Uighur woman hugs her son as she stands outside her house with her daughter and neighbors
Reproductive rights
Sterilization abuse of Uighurs in China meets international legal criteria for genocide, experts say
Workers in hard hats and construction vests walking by a fence.
Conflict & Justice
How China uses malware to track Muslim Uighurs, even if they’ve fled the country
A person is holding a rainbow colored rose.
New documentary follows LGBTQ people fleeing persecution in Chechnya
A helmeted head is blurry in the foreground, behind it, a line of protesters on a balcony
Top of The World
Hong Kong national security law to take effect; Iran sentences journalist to death; Koalas could be extinct by 2050 in New South Wales
The Chinese national flag is seen in Beijing, April 29, 2020.
Canadian activists say they’re being targeted by China
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks to the media at the State Department in Washington, March 5, 2020.
Activists sue Pompeo over commission they say could undermine human rights
Two women dance together wearing red clothing.
LGBTQ
One small step: Moscow’s first queer dance festival challenges homophobia
President Magufuli stands in front of a podium.
Human rights
Activists in Tanzania spend the holidays behind bars amid crackdown on free expression
A woman takes tampon boxes out of a supermarket shelf in Buenos Aires January 16, 2015.  
Period apps share your fertility data with Facebook
Business-card advertisements for census 2020 jobs are pinned to a bulletin board
Politics
This algorithm could keep your census data ‘future-proof’
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei stands near a microphone in a radio studio.
Arts, Culture & Media
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei asks: Does America still have ‘the big heart?’
French police check identity cards of two women for wearing full-face veils
Justice
French ban on full-face Islamic veil violates human rights, says UN
A woman dresses a girl at a shelter, surrounded by luggage and clothes
Immigration
Immigration judges say Sessions’ decision makes it harder for people facing ‘life and death’ to win asylum in US
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi meets with with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt on January 20, 2018.
Justice
In President Sisi’s Egypt, human rights are under threat
Students learn Arabic script at a Quranic school on the outskirts of Senegal's capital Dakar, May 7, 2008.
Justice
Senegal tried to crack down on schools forcing children to beg. But thousands of kids are still in the streets.
Police officers walk outside a polling station in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Nov. 1, 2013. Tajikistan has recently announced a registry of allegedly gay citizens.
Sexuality
Tajikistan announces official registry of gay citizens
Members of Brazil's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community posing for a portrait inside a free residential shelter called CASA 1 or "House 1" in downtown São Paulo on May 16, 2017.
Justice
Brazil is accused of stripping away LGBT rights
Mohamed Zaree giving a talk with the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in Egypt.
Conflict
Meet the winner of the ‘Nobel for human rights’ that Egypt doesn’t want you to know about
An asylum-seeker from Uganda covers his face with a paper bag in order to protect his identity as he marches with the LGBT Asylum Support Task Force during the Gay Pride Parade in Boston, Massachusetts, June 8, 2013.
Justice
Uganda’s other refugee crisis
Protesters gather to condemn the killing of university student Mashal Khan, after he was accused of blasphemy, during a protest in Peshawar, Pakistan, April 20, 2017.
Justice
Pakistanis say their government has ‘weaponized’ its blasphemy law
Brides sit together during a mass wedding ceremony in Peshawar, Pakistan, April 25, 2014.
Justice
Pakistan cracks down on men trading young daughters to settle debts and disputes
Two men in suits walking down New York steet
Justice
Mr. Trump, I would be dead today if this country had not let me in
Guengueng
Justice
How this torture survivor from Chad made good on ‘a pact with God’
Morning circle time with Aya Hijazi and some of the children the group works with outside the Belady Foundation.
Justice
In Egypt, even helping street children can land you in prison
Environment
Monitoring technology used to suppress dissent
FIFA's newly elected president Gianni Infantino poses with the Qatar Workers Cup trophy in Doha, Qatar, April 22, 2016.
Sports
Would FIFA really pull soccer’s World Cup from Qatar if human rights abuses there continue?
Activists of the radical Islamist party Hefajat-e-Islam in Bangladesh demanding capital punishment for a group of bloggers in 2013.
Justice
Who just killed the man some called ‘the Harvey Milk of Bangladesh’?
Lutz Bachmann, co-founder of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA), waits in a courtroom for his trial to be charged with incitement over Facebook posts in a court in Dresden, Germany, April 19, 2016.
Global Politics
German far-right leader on trial for a Facebook post comparing refugees to cattle
Manzanar
Arts
Freedom From Fear: An art project captures a struggle immortalized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Barcelona's Lionel Messi (L) and Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos.
Conflict
How Gulf nations are using soccer to distract from their poor human rights records
Saudi Arabia Uncovered
Conflict
Saudi activists use secret cameras to show repression by authorities
Vickie Remoe
Business
It’s not just Kesha. Women face demands for transactional sex all over the world.
The Hindu temple at Pirojpur, where Sanjida and Puja attempted to marry.
Culture
In Bangladesh, a same-sex marriage might see the couple sent to jail
Yashica Dutt
Justice
Why I finally ‘came out’ as Dalit — and what happened next
Rebecca MacKinnon, director of New America Foundation's "Ranking Digital Rights" project
Technology
Who’s messing with your Internet rights? And who’d tell you if they did?