Browsing: Human Interest Stories
Of the 10 states with abortion rights on the ballot, seven states, including several that supported Donald Trump, voted to…
For the past four decades, a woefully inadequate and callous response towards the victims and survivors of the Bhopal gas…
Human Rights Council in sessionCredit: UN Web TV In October 2023, various regional and universal human rights bodies will hold…
Above: Entrance to Forgotten Chinatowns of Northern California. By Marika Garcia On September 7, 2024, the Chinese American Museum of…
On international Women Human Rights Defenders Day, a coalition of human rights organizations are launching a new set of guidelines…
In an extremely alarming UN-backed report published a couple of weeks ago, experts warned that famine is immediately imminent for…
24 November 2024 Patria Mirabal, Minerva Mirabal, and Maria Teresa Mirabal were sisters and staunch opponents of Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship…
On 27 November 2024 ISHR shared this profile: ‘The Egyptian authorities must open the civic space for civil society to…
Oman Vision 2040 is the country’s long-term development strategy to diversify its economy, enhance social services, and foster sustainable growth,…
A Metropolitan Police firearms officer has been found not guilty of the murder of Chris Kaba. Chris Kaba, a 24…
Scholars advance the argument that the ECtHR should play an active role in mitigating the issues posed by the blanket…
2024-25 Tiruchelvam Fellow: Thyagi Ruwanpathirana The Human Rights Program and the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World…
In late October 2024, Roskomnadzor, Russia’s telecommunications and media regulator, blocked 197 virtual private networks (VPNs) that allowed users to access…
Prison officers allegedly sexually assaulted and harassed Vida Rabbani, an Iranian journalist and activist, during a body search at Evin…
27 November 2024, from UN Human Rights: © Francis Estrada The top awards for the 2024 International Contest for Minority…
Getty ImagesHong Kong saw explosive pro-democracy protests in the last decade – but hopes for a freer city have faded…
Reacting to FIFA’s evaluation of Saudi Arabia’s bid for the 2034 men’s World Cup, Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International’s Head of Labour…
Walter Ngano, on Friday, 29 November 2024, wrote about three nationals in Kenya being honoured as Human Rights Defenders, illustrating…
Reacting to the violent dispersal of what started as peaceful protest in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Eastern…
In her latest report to the UN General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly…
Getty ImagesUniqlo is facing an online backlash in China after the boss of its parent company said the Japanese clothing…
Reacting to the new prison sentence for Russian activist Aleksei Gorinov, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Russia Director, said:“The outrageous new…
On Thursday night, the Australian government passed new laws that expand the country’s offshore detention regime, further evade international obligations,…
Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain along with the European Center for Democracy and Human Rights, is launching…
outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in Westminster, UK, 3 July 2023. Jordan Pettitt/PA Images via Getty ImagesON On…
Dictators see independent media as an existential threat, so it’s no surprise that Belarus’s Alyaksandr Lukashenka wants to crush media freedom…
Katherine C. LittleRedefines the relationship between medieval and Renaissance literature and studies the continuity and change across these periKatherine C.…
For F*ck’s Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude and Fun, by Rebecca RoacheOxford University Press, 257 pp., $21.95 ** English…
The advancement of knowledge knows no borders, and everyone can contribute to and demonstrate the creativity that underpins research. The…
The Justice Committee has launched its first new inquiry of the Parliament, into reoffending in England and Wales. MPs on…
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) published yesterday the opinion it adopted on 30 August 2024 during…
Historians of the American experience have spilled oceans of ink attempting to explain the heart and soul of the country,…
The opioid epidemic has gripped communities for more than 20 years. From 1999 to 2022, nearly 722,000 people died from…
Psychologist Robert Abelson writes that the relationship we have with our beliefs shares properties of our association with physical possessions.…
“The heart has reasons that reason does not know,” wrote seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal. In the case of empathy,…
Most Americans are unlikely to have a medical assistance in dying law available to them in the near future, but…
In 2022, I revealed in an online article for Skeptical Inquirer that I was victimized by a romance scam after…
There comes a time in a man’s life when he must think about the inevitable. When I turned a leaf…
Jennifer and Jason Reinoehl of Granger, Indiana, tried to bring about a modern version of the Scopes Trial. In 2023,…
Religion has staked its claim to many aspects of people’s lives for thousands of years. From where, when, and how…
Humanist Canada members from British Columbia to Nova Scotia gathered on line throughout November to participate in a course entitled …
Saudi Arabia has embraced technology and digital advancements, promoting itself as a hub for innovation, yet this progress often stands…
Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced plans for major policing reforms yesterday at the National Police Chiefs’ Council and Association of…
President-elect Donald Trump has made mass detention of immigrant communities a central part of his political platform. Trump’s cabinet nominees…
Twenty minutes from where I grew up, in Owasso, Oklahoma, Nex Benedict was relentlessly bullied for being trans. This bigoted…
United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has cited a submission made by Humanists International in his report on countering intolerance, underscoring…
ReutersSir Keir Starmer has met President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit, and emphasised the importance of a “strong UK-China…
Humanist Canada was invited to the launch of ‘Living Beyond The Shadow’ a beautifully crafted memoir by Diane Sims, on…
For more than a decade, the European Union’s reputation as a beacon of freedom and democracy has been flagging. Recent…
The ongoing COP 29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been living up to the anticorruption community’s worst fears. Risks…