Human Rights

As the U.N. warns of a continuing risk of genocide, Myanmar should seriously consider the last 30 years and ask if its security policies are helping anyone at all.

Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has been a key player in the Iranian government’s campaign of repression and censorship.

Concentration camps, surveillance, and spies keep the community under tight control.

The imprisoned Uighur economist represents an entire people under attack by China.

Costa Rica has announced its candidacy to stop Nicolás Maduro’s tyrannical government from winning a coveted seat at the U.N.

British citizens will no longer be covered by EU law, and courts won’t have the power to protect minorities from the will of the parliamentary majority. Only a codified constitution can ensure basic rights.

Staffers complain of abuse of authority, harassment, and widespread discrimination at the World Food Program.

President Paul Biya won’t get anywhere without engaging directly with separatist grievances.

U.S. diplomats team up with a “rogues’ gallery” of conservative states to roll back global reproductive health gains of the past quarter-century.

Reemphasizing fundamental rights is the best way to keep them universal.

Religious leaders can help convince the most ethnocentric and authoritarian U.S. voters to oppose Washington’s backing of abusive dictators.

Looking for help on immigration, the Trump administration is silent in the face of Guatemala’s effort to seal its dirty war archive.

Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is an election-winning machine. But its ideology is sharply at odds with economic or social common sense.

It won’t bring the regime in from the cold, but it will save lives.

Shootings reported as enfrentamientos, or confrontations, often mask killings of civilians and other misconduct.

New research claims that the U.S. public doesn’t care about protecting enemy civilians. It is wrong—and dangerous.

The U.S. government has just released a highly anticipated human rights report that whitewashes the effects of its own policies.

Thirty years after Tiananmen, the CCP has largely triumphed over history. But its failure to recognize that could spell trouble.

A 1972 memo downplaying the slaughter of Hutus in Burundi stirred an angry scrawled response from the president.

Twenty-five years after the Rwandan genocide, will the U.N. at last pursue one of its own former officials?