Former U.S. Olympic speedskater Joey Cheek, founder of a group of athletes called Team Darfur, had a visa for China revoked shortly before he was to embark for Beijing...

The Beijing Olympics have left the world’s human rights groups frustrated and angry _ convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses, and...

Nepal’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to ensure basic health care and education for virgin girls worshipped as “living goddesses” in a...

Argentina on Monday announced its first nationwide gay-rights measure: granting same-sex couples the right to claim their deceased partners’ pensions.

The U.N. Human Rights Committee is criticizing Britain over its tough counterterrorism laws, legislation that limits free speech and the use of an Indian Ocean...

An American human rights envoy will not visit South Korea as planned this week, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday after North Korea refused him permission to cross into a...

Add another name to the ever-growing list of pro-gays and crusaders for gay right – our very own Ramadoss. After making India’s premier medical facility a battle...

A Chinese human rights activist whose husband was jailed earlier this year has disappeared and may have been taken by police to prevent her from speaking to journalists...

North Korea rejected a U.S. envoy’s request to visit a joint-Korean industrial complex that he has criticized for exploiting workers, a South Korean official said...

A United Nations human rights envoy left Tuesday to inspect the devastation from the cyclone that struck Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river delta three months ago.

Aborigines won traditional ownership rights over a large stretch of coastline in northern Australia on Wednesday, in a landmark ruling lawyers said could set a...

A Harvard-educated judge from South Africa will take over as the United Nations’ top advocate for human rights.

The United Nations chief told rights advocates Friday that his choice to be the next U.N. human rights commissioner is a South African judge who was the first black...

A South African judge who was the first black woman to serve on her country’s highest court will be the next U.N. human rights commissioner, diplomatic and U.N....

An Indian origin doctor in Australia has been indefinitely banned from practising medicine for secretly taking “up skirt” photographs of women patients while giving...

Someday, when a boy named Dixon and Willoughby Partin asks how he got his 24-letter name, he’ll learn it came with a hundred bucks worth of gasoline.David Partin...

John McCain has a reputation as a maverick, but it shouldn’t fool anyone. Under the surface he’s a hard boiled conservative. His voting history tells no...

Residents of a mostly black neighborhood were awarded nearly $11 million Thursday by a federal jury that found local authorities denied them public water service for...

A former Alabama state trooper is scheduled to go on trial in October for a slaying that occurred on darkened streets during a historic civil rights demonstration in...

Domestic workers in Saudi Arabia often suffer abuse that in some cases amounts to slavery, as well as sexual violence and lashings for spurious allegations of theft or...