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’ ...

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 ...

Political opposition leaders in the United Kingdom have called for a human rights activist to be stripped of his citizenship over past social media posts allegedly containing violent and antisemitic ...

A UN expert panel condemned the latest murder of a Mexican human rights activist on Wednesday, and called for a thorough, impartial and transparent investigation by state authorities. Sael Silva ...

The United States and European Union in recent years have deemphasized human rights issues and the rule of law in Central Asia. But that does not mean the issues have fallen completely off the radar ...

We are living in an upside-down world. Here is an example. When the U.N. Security Council endorsed President Trump’s so-called peace plan for Gaza, including what looks like indefinite U.S.-backed ...

In honor of Human Rights Defenders Day on Dec. 9, Mongabay looks back at The Clearing, a documentary about young Cambodian activists currently jailed for their environmental and social activism.

The discussion reviewed the draft law’s provisions on the commission’s independence, accountability, appointment process, ...