Human Rights

Aung San Suu Kyi: A Leader in Denial?
Gun Stocks Surge as Trump Pushes to Ease Export Regulations for Assault Weapons
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
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The Trump administration will reportedly ease export rules to allow American gun makers to sell more weapons to foreign buyers, despite concerns about fueling global conflict and threatening national security.
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New Research Reveals There Are More Than 40 Million Slaves Worldwide
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
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Reports released during the UN General Assembly meetings on Tuesday suggest...
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Oxfam Has Made Refugees Welcome... at Trump's Childhood Home
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
When can an Airbnb rental make a commentary about the U.S. president's anti-...
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Many families in the Gaza Strip are living with no electricity or only a couple of hours of power per day, making conditions stifling at home. Households also lack clean drinking water and fresh food because of poor infrastructure and the energy crisis.
Human Rights Group Calls Conditions in Gaza 'Unlivable' for One Million Children
refugees in Bangladesh
More Than 120,000 of 'World's Most Persecuted People' Flee Violence in Myanmar
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein
UN Human Rights Chief Questions If Trump Fomenting Violence Against Journalists
The report came as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in Manila meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who bragged to a state news agency that the U.S. and Australia have "considerably toned down" their criticism of his human rights record.
Trump Embraces Duterte as Endless US War Expands in Philippines
Three Years After Gruesome Execution, Ohio Set to Resume State-Sanctioned Killing
Destroying Mosul to Save It: Possible US-Backed War Crimes in Iraq Exposed
"What to the Slave is 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
Justice for Omar Khadr: Child Detainee to Receive Apology, at Least $10 Million From Canada
Top U.N. Human Rights Official Denounces Trump's Pro-Torture Rhetoric
UN Expert Touts Universal Basic Income as 'Bold and Imaginative Solution' to Poverty
Trump "Simply Doesn't Care": Six Members of HIV/AIDS Advisory Panel Resign
Trump Set to Take Backwards Step on Cuba Policy

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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Last Chance For Justice For Over 20,000 Wartime Sexual Violence Survivors
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