More than 2,000 people were executed in Iran over the past year, approximately one person every 4.35 hours, according to a ...

A new report reveals the widespread scale of human rights abuses in Iran over the past year, as activists warn the regime may carry out another wave of mass executions to suppress growing opposition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person runs along the Sunday bike route in front of a section of the metal guardrail at the so-called "Roundabout of the ...

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," I speak with my friend Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert and Ethel Kennedy Center for Human Rights. A lifelong human rights activist and ...

Environmental and Indigenous rights defenders remained among the world’s most targeted human rights advocates in 2025, despite landmark rulings by international courts affirming governments’ ...

US Alleges Well-Known Mexican Human Rights Activist Works for Drug Cartel By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY, April 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. ⁠on ⁠Tuesday imposed sanctions on a ⁠well-known human rights ...

Amnesty International on Thursday called on Kazakhstan to immediately drop criminal charges against 19 activists affiliated with the local Atajurt human rights movement who face up to 10 years in ...

Rabbis for Human Rights said its acting director submitted the complaint on behalf of its 170 members, alleging incitement to racism, incitement to violence, and encouraging the theft of property.

A Kazakh court on April 13 sentenced a group of human rights activists to up to five years in jail, in a case that has drawn attention to Beijing’s expanding influence in the Central Asian nation. All ...

Thursday, October 15, 2026, was indeed a great day for Nigeria’s human rights community. On that day, the ‘All Activists Congress’ was held in Lagos. The event brought together activists from all ...