A Russian law has taken effect that, in theory, would allow the Russian government to cut off the country’s Internet from the rest of the world. The “sovereign Internet law,” as the government calls it, greatly enhances the Kremlin’s control over the Web. It was passed earlier this year and …
Faced with rare protests, Egypt’s government has launched a crackdown that human rights groups say is one of the largest the country has seen during Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s five years as president. Authorities have arrested at least 3,000 people since the protests began on Sept. 20, according to several Egyptian human rights …
Police bring charges against far-right group after attack on transgender sex worker investigated as a hate crime. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia – Last month, Bosoo Khukh Mongol, a far-right Mongolian nationalist group, teamed up with a local television station to lure a transgender sex worker into a hotel room. In the room, they threatened …
“We consider two communities fundamental, the family as one man, one woman and the children,” said the leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) at a recent convention. LGBT+ rights have become the single biggest cultural issue in Poland’s election campaign ahead of Sunday’s vote. In the eyes …
HOMOSEXUALITY has been a controversial topic across the legal and moral domains in China. Homosexual acts were officially decriminalised in 1997, but Chinese laws have yet to properly recognise or protect same-sex couples in the forms of marriage or de facto relationships. However, a recent development has given hope to …
A prominent LGBT rights campaigner has been found dead with multiple stab wounds and signs of strangulation in the Russian city of St Petersburg. The body of a 41-year-old woman was found in bushes near her home in the city on Sunday, local police said. Relatives and friends later named …
Much of the time, the Trump Administration looks like a flailing force, a machine of deregulation, defunding, and destruction. Once in a while, though, it actually creates something intentionally and efficiently. The packing of the federal judiciary is one such pocket of sustained action. Another appears to be the State …
Activists say widening acceptance of LGBT people stands in sharp contrast to rise in hate crimes against the community. London, United Kingdom – Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets of central London for the United Kingdom‘s largest LGBT pride parade. Shops and restaurants gave out colourful badges, bracelets and flags …
There is no time in life more difficult than after you lose a loved one. For more than 100 years, my family has had the honor of coming alongside those in grief, helping thousands of families in Detroit begin the journey toward healing. Now, my family’s livelihood and our legacy …
The State Department initiative is seen as a potential counterweight to an expansive liberal view of human rights. The Trump administration plans to officially launch a new panel on human rights as early as Monday — one already under scrutiny from Democrats who fear its stated focus on “natural law …
“People are tired of injustice,” says Ivan Golunov, an independent Russian journalist who has come to symbolise the struggle against powerful corrupt officials. The 36-year-old, working for online publication Meduza, was held by police in Moscow last month and accused of large-scale drug-dealing. But the charges were dropped following a …
Robert George, longtime religious zealot and onetime Never Trumper, has reached the halls of Foggy Bottom. The State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights, a body of some 15 academics, legal scholars, and nonprofit leaders advising Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about human rights, was announced in late May without input from …