Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King were the proud parents of four children. Yolanda Denise King, Martin Luther ...

"General Dragon Master" was a high-ranking member of a brutal rebel force who lied to enter the United States and later ...

Business leader and human rights activist Mandana Dayani was appointed Friday to the Holocaust Memorial Council board of trustees. Dayani was appointed by President Joe Biden to serve on the council ...

After nearly 50 years in prison, activists hope President Biden will grant Peltier clemency.

After 46,000 dead and countless more from disease and starvation, Palestinians can celebrate a truce, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER, yet even as the Democrat and Republican leaders scramble to take credit ...

THE nation has carried out its first execution in nearly five years, drawing criticism from rights groups who said the use of capital punishment was a “huge setback” for the island’s human rights.

Nicaraguan authorities swore in more than 1,400 masked civilians to form part of a new "volunteer" police force on Friday, raising concerns from human rights groups that President Daniel Ortega's ...

Hundreds more Cuban dissidents are expected to be released in the coming days in a deal with President Biden, but even a top ...

Keith Siegel will return to Israel after a year to the news that his mother has died while Sagui Dekel-Chen will return to ...

The Human Rights Watch, or HRW, warns that even if the government in Bangladesh changes, the practice of human rights ...

Lasting reforms will be needed in Bangladesh to stop abuses, with the interim government led by Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad ...