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The US State Department on Tuesday released a pared-down version of its annual report meant to catalogue human rights concerns in countries around the world. The report covers the 2024 calendar year – ...

Influencers are a "new threat" to isolated tribes, and attempts to contact them are human rights abuse, according to a charity. US Citizen and social media influencer, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, ...

The State Department is pushing back against criticism of its changes to the process of reporting human rights abuses. NPR reported last week that the Trump administration was scaling back annual ...

GENEVA, Switzerland — Palestinians described alleged abuses by Israeli forces and settlers — punched in the genitals, held for days while naked, starved — to independent U.N.-backed human rights ...

The Trump administration released its new, drastically scaled-down version of the State Department’s annual human rights report after months of delay Tuesday. The administration’s assessment of human ...

(Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s omission of key sections and manipulation of certain countries’ rights abuses degrade and politicize the 2025 US State Department human rights report, ...

LIMA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Peru President Dina Boluarte signed a law on Wednesday pardoning military and police officers accused of human rights abuses committed from 1980 to 2000 during a bitter fight ...

When the second Donald Trump administration began, many worried that it would abandon America’s long-standing, bipartisan commitment to human rights around the world. This was the concern during the ...

Congratulations on your appointment as the African Union Special Envoy for the Sahel. Your assumption of this role comes at a pivotal moment for a region grappling with deteriorating security, ...