‘Smorgasbord approach to the law’: effects of rollbacks in trans protections will ‘wide-ranging’
Trans people across the country are preparing themselves to get through the next four years under Trump. While Trump has ...
Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency
The president is also pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. The move follows a pardon for his son Hunter, ...
At least 110 people have died in 7 weeks of post-election protests in Mozambique, rights groups say
Rights and civil society groups say more than 100 people including children have been killed by security forces in ...
A gang leader in Haiti is accused of massacring older people to avenge his son’s death
A gang leader who controls a key port in Haiti’s capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders in ...
The DOJ issued a scathing report of Worcester police. Here are top takeaways.
The Justice Department alleged Worcester police engaged in a “pattern or practice” of sexual misconduct involving women ...
Gang leader in Haiti accused of massacring older people to avenge his son's death
A powerful gang leader in Haiti's capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders in his community ...
New set of human rights principles aims to end displacement and abuse of Indigenous people through ‘fortress conservation’
Private conservation groups channel huge sums of money to parks and protected areas around the world, but often have failed ...
For the families of Syria’s disappeared, hope fades but the demand for justice grows
More than a week after Bashar al-Assad fled Syria and his regime collapsed, hundreds of thousands of Syrians still have no ...
New set of human rights principles aims to end displacement and abuse of Indigenous people
For more than a century, conservationists have worked to preserve natural ecosystems by creating national parks and protected ...
Bill of Rights: What does it say and what are the 10 amendments?
It has been 233 years since the ratification of the Bill of Rights. The aim is to give freedom and justice to all Americans, ...
More than 120 House Democrats send letter to Biden urging him to ratify Equal Rights Amendment
A coalition of over 100 lawmakers wrote a letter on Sunday urging President Biden to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, which would outlaw gender discrimination in the Constitution.  “We must ...
The dead, the missing and the reunited: Three tales of Syria’s tortured prisoners
Assad, thousands of Syrians have crowded his regime’s notorious detention facilities in a desperate search for loved ones who ...