Human Rights

Children climb a tree on the grounds of a school in La Rivera Hernandez, a neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, that is notorious for high levels of violence in a city that has some of the highest homicide rates in the world.

PHOTOS: Despite War And Violence, Kids Still Find 'Moments Of Playfulness'

4:22pm December 06, 2020

by Rosemary Misdary

Photojournalist Danielle Villasana shares images from 'Entitlements,' a new exhibit that showcases the resilience and perseverance of children living through war and conflict around the world.

Iraqi workers and international investigators excavate a mass grave known as "the mother's grave" in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in October. The grave in the village of Solagh is believed to hold more than 80 bodies of women ISIS considered too old

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'Nothing Left In The World Except These Bones': Yazidis Search For Mothers' Remains

2:03pm December 02, 2020

by Jane Arraf

Investigators have discovered 17 mass graves containing bodies of some of the 3,000 Yazidis killed by ISIS. For survivors, a grave with remains of older and pregnant women prompts a special anguish.

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This Nov. 30, 2014 image made from video released by Loujain al-Hathloul shows her driving toward the United Arab Emirates-Saudi Arabia border before her arrest on Dec. 1, 2014, in Saudi Arabia. Al-Hathloul has been imprisoned for over two years and will

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Loujain Al-Hathloul: Saudi Arabia Transfers Activist's Trial To Terrorism Court

4:41pm November 26, 2020

by Jackie Northam

The activist's sister tells NPR her parents "saw a very weak, tired, exhausted Loujain" at her court appearance: "They said that her body was shaking, that she could barely hold the papers."

Gasser Abdel Razek, executive director of Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, in a photo from the organization's website. Abdel Razek was arrested with two other officials of the civil rights organization after the met with European ambassadors.

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Egypt Defiant As International Criticism Grows Over Arrest Of Human Rights Activists

3:06pm November 23, 2020

by Jane Arraf

Three prominent figures in the country's embattled human rights movement were arrested after meeting with European ambassadors. The Egyptian government is accusing them of being terrorists.

Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh with a poster of South Africa's Nelson Mandela, in a scene from the Nasrin documentary.

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'Nasrin' Documentary Spotlights Life And Work Of Jailed Iranian Human Rights Lawyer

11:57am October 30, 2020

by Deborah Amos

A new film focuses on Nasrin Sotoudeh, a leading human rights lawyer whose health is declining in prison. "She is the closest thing that Iran has to Nelson Mandela," says analyst Karim Sadjadpour.

A guard tower and barbed wire fences are seen around the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region in December 2018.

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Report: Satellite Images Reveal Suspected Detention Sites In China's Xinjiang Region

6:49pm September 24, 2020

by Laurel Wamsley

The centers have apparently been built and expanded since 2019, even as Chinese officials claimed most of the ethnic Uighurs and others sent to the facilities had "returned to society."

A law enforcement officer raises a baton and tear gas is fired during protests near the White House on June 1.

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Amnesty International Documents 125 Incidents Of Police Violence Against Protesters

5:19pm August 04, 2020

by Laurel Wamsley

The instances spanned 40 states and the District of Columbia, and allege excessive force by state and local police, and National Guard troops and federal agents against racial justice protesters.

A health worker in personal protective equipment stands in a COVID-19 intensive care unit in Taiz, Yemen.

'I Will Kill You': Health Care Workers Face Rising Attacks Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

4:46pm June 29, 2020

by Malaka Gharib

A doctor in Yemen says he was threatened at gunpoint when treating a patient infected with the virus. The incident is part of a larger trend of pandemic-related attacks worldwide.

A Maasai man in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, prays next to a mural of George Floyd, painted by the artist Allan Mwangi on June 3.

From Murals To Tweets: The Global South Shows Solidarity With George Floyd Protests

5:35am June 06, 2020

by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Whether by painting murals, tweeting or taking to the streets, people in countries struggling with conflict, poverty and other crises are showing support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Police in riot gear move through a cloud of smoke as they detain a protester, in November. Freedom House cited the willingness of people in Hong Kong to protest as encouraging.

Freedom House Report Finds Freedom On The Wane Worldwide

12:25am March 04, 2020

by David Welna

The annual survey of the state of global freedom includes the world's two biggest democracies — India and the U.S. — among nations where freedom is declining.