Climate change and efforts to curb it by moving away from fossil fuels are both threatening the rights and livelihood of Sami indigenous ... projects and resource extraction... in the name of 'green' ...

the B.C. Human Rights commissioner said. Kasari Govender said in the letter to Education Minister Lisa Beare and Public Safety Minister Gary Begg that failure to fund research into the matter is ...

The commission recognizes "the fundamental principle that all persons are equal in dignity and human rights without regard to ... physical disability, mental disability … sanctioned by the laws ...

United States President Donald Trump is planning to cut off US engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council and extend a funding ban on the UN agency for Palestinian refugees ...

Human Rights Watch’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Division defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced people, and migrants worldwide. We investigate rights violations arising from ...

Human Rights Watch works for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender peoples' rights, and with activists representing a multiplicity of identities and issues. We document and expose abuses based ...

An organization advocating for people with disabilities says the new federal disability benefit could be delayed beyond the promised July 1 payment date because the government still hasn’t ...

Ahead of a hearing Monday in Washington, a court filing from a small West Virginia nonprofit that helps people with disabilities illustrates ... highlighting the human toll underlying this litigation.

The group included scientists with sight, hearing and mobility disabilities. Marshall’s organization ran the field trip to the lake along the San Andreas Fault, outside of San Bernadino.

The directive could strip federal funding from schools that allow trans women and girls to compete in women’s events. Local aid workers say they are trying to flee Khartoum out of fear the army ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by ...

The ACLU and a coalition of immigrant rights advocates filed a lawsuit Monday to stop the federal government from implementing the Trump administration’s new asylum policies, which they argue ...