Drawing on data from the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, Newsweek has created this map to show countries on the Human Rights ...

Former United Nations human rights expert on extrajudicial killings Agnes Callamard on Tuesday hailed the arrest of former ...

The Metro Nashville Police Department has implemented new zero-tolerance sexual misconduct and harassment procedures this ...

The Algerian authorities have maintained their repression of civic space through a brutal crackdown on the rights to freedom ...

The arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday was a cause both to celebrate and relive old pain for the families ...

The use of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in immigration cases is “out of control”, the shadow home secretary ...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Friday that removes gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

The signing makes Iowa the first ... rights under state antidiscrimination law. “Iowa has been a trailblazer in advancing civil and basic human rights — from banning slavery all the way ...

Earlier this week, 17 independent UN human rights experts released a statement expressing grave concern over Trump’s new executive order calling it “an attack on global rule of law and strikes at the ...

The bill signing by Gov. Kim Reynolds makes Iowa the first state in the country to take away civil rights from a group it has previously protected.

Advocates and experts said those questions come at a vulnerable time, as the Trump administration targets the transgender ...

Other countries on the watchlist include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan, and Serbia.