Women’s rights are under attack 30 years after leaders adopted a blueprint for equality, UN says
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United ...
State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas
American officials, including in the C.I.A., are concerned about mass closures hampering national security work. And China ...
Court ordered audit finds flaws in L.A. City’s homeless services
An audit of homeless services provided by the city of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found them ...
Trump administration weighs closure of some diplomatic missions abroad
The U.S. State Department is preparing to shut down a number of consulates that are mainly in Western Europe in the coming ...
Trump wants to dismantle the Education Department. Here’s what it does
Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has cut dozens of contracts it dismissed as “woke” and wasteful ...
US Park Service pulls human rights activist Pauli Murray page after Trump’s 2-gender order
"LGBTQ+ stories are part of our shared American inheritance, and these changes to the Park Service web page are nothing short ...
Peru's Indigenous leaders raise concerns over oil and gas projects at a human rights hearing
Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, ...
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Why Should We Even Have to Say This?
In human rights work, we say what needs to be said. Sometimes, we say it for those who are unable to speak out at the moment ...
Another US funding cut threatens human rights in North Korea - and hands more power to a dictator
Human rights in one of the world’s most egregious authoritarian regimes are set to be diminished even further, thanks to ...
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Joint Letter to Member and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council on the Repression of Civic Space in Algeria
The Algerian authorities have maintained their repression of civic space through a brutal crackdown on the rights to freedom ...
UN rights chief laments 'shift in direction' in United States
The U.N. human rights chief has expressed concern about a “fundamental shift in direction” taking place in the United States ...
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Study finds high levels of microplastics in human brains that appear to be increasing over time
Human brains contain higher concentrations of microplastics than other organs, according to a new study, and the amount appears to be increasing over time. In the study, published in early ...