Friends and family gathered in East Oakland to honor Lyle Prijoles, a Hayward man and human rights activist killed by ...

Human Rights First deplores the extraordinary, last-minute decision by the Government of Zambia to cancel the RightsCon ...

From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

Dear self-proclaimed human rights activists, For forty days, the streets of Iran ran red while more than 30,000 civilians were slaughtered in a brutal crackdown, men and women whose only “crime” was ...

The goal, say Mexican authorities, was to bring clarity to one of the nation’s most explosive questions: What happened to the more than 130,000 people officially listed as “disappeared"? Their faces ...

Update: On September 27, 2025, a court in Da Nang convicted and sentenced Trinh Ba Phuong, already serving a 10-year sentence, to an additional 11 years for criticizing the Communist Party of Vietnam.

The message of religious gender justice activists around the world is simple but powerful: nondiscrimination, equality, and ...

(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 ...

The government's plan to screen and determine who qualifies as a human rights activist to decide who receives legal ...

The Iraqi parliament’s Human Rights Committee has come under criticism, with activists saying some members have political or organizational ties to groups accused of abuses. In the sixth ...

Indonesia’s Human Rights Minister Natalius Pigai, a Catholic, has come under fire from civil society groups and rights ...