Human Rights

Human trafficking, particularly sex trafficking, has become an area of interest both in the general public and also within social...

PHOTO BY LORIE SHAULL Feminism continues to be a fraught issue with fractures within the community of feminists, as well...

Bilal Hussein/AP The worldwide refugee crisis, largely spurred by the historic mass migration of people from war-torn Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan...

With the recent change in administration, many questions remain in regard to the potential policy changes that may affect refugees...

WACO, Texas – Super Bowl festivities in Houston will be in full swing this week as the nation gears up...

The mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is to safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values. ...

There is a worrying trend in popular media, whereby “debate” and “free speech” are becoming synonymous with “listening to hate...

Ex-Walmart worker David Alvarez, center. As a Wal-Mart employee in Tampa, Florida, David Alvarez was responsible for routinely throwing away...

It is starting to feel like a domestic war is brewing. People are taking sides, dividing up into camps. Facebook...

"Child welfare is a continuum of services that ensure children are safe and that families have the support they need...

Subprime loans, adjustable rate mortgages, unregulated equity lines of credit, mentally ill, physically and verbally abused, veterans, runaway children, drug...

By Gabe Duverge The poverty rate in the United States is 14.8 percent, based on the latest data from the...

June is a special month to salute civil and human liberties -- from Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration commemorating the...

New York – Women Deliver 2016 Conference is taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 16-19 May, and it will focus...

“This is a man’s world, but it wouldn’t be nothing without a woman or a girl” are lyrics by James...

Polish-born Holocaust survivor Meyer Hack shows his prisoner number tattooed on his arm during a news conference at the Yad...

Recently, I had chance to watch "The Inequality Movie" narrated by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich where it outlines how...

I remember interviewing two women back to back for a federal research project. Both women were black. They were mother...

Children, women and men should be protected from forced labour and human trafficking which are two serious human rights violations....

Human rights defenders and civil society organisations working to protect the human rights of women and gender equality perform an...