Orders to embassies told them to ignore human rights issues like torture and instead focus on trans health care and abortion as violations.

The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under ...

The U.S. State Department has released a heavily edited version of its annual report on human rights around the world. The report did not include any mention of LGBTQ+ rights violations and other ...

Human rights are granted to people simply for existing. They are universal—meaning they’re applicable to everyone, regardless of whether the country you live in specifically offers the rights and ...

(Bangkok) – The Foreign Correspondents Clubs of Thailand and Taiwan have joined Human Rights Watch and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University to ...

Economic freedom, in and of itself, is a “negative” human right. That is, it is a right vested unalienably in individuals to act free from government infringement. Economic freedom concerns itself ...

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations. State Department slashes its annual reports on human ...