Human Rights
Hero: Cuban activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara given 2024 Rafto Prize for human rights
The institution's ruling highlights that the 36 year-old Cuban, currently in prison, “has been arrested countless times for his activism”
The institution's ruling highlights that the 36 year-old Cuban, currently in prison, “has been arrested countless times for his activism”
In Arizona, the campaign behind an initiative to provide a state constitutional right to abortion did not submit signatures on July 7, the signature deadline in the state
The current and former agent were allegedly part of a scheme to undermine Chinese dissidents living in the U.S.
A court in Belarus sentenced a 20-year-old student from the eastern city of Mahiliou to 6.5 years in prison for expressing criticism Ukraine war and Alyaksandr Lukashenka, the country’s authoritarian ruler and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin
Colombia had become the unofficial headquarters for activists, journalists, former politicians and military deserters targeted by the Maduro regime
Cuban filmmaker Eliecer Jiménez Almeida claims that Marta María Mariño, who he says was partially responsible for his expulsion from the University of Camagüey, is now celebrating the Fourth of July in the U.S.
The Cuban scientist and opposition leader demands that the United Nations denounce the human rights violations against him and his sister, professor Omara Ruiz
Riding a wave of anger over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Latvian lawmakers voted in May to approve an amendment to a 1994 agreement between Latvia and Russia on the preservation of Soviet-era monuments that mandated the demolition of “all objects glorifying the Soviet and Nazi regimes.”
This was met with confusion by some Western outlets although Korean reunification activists have long sent balloons across to their communist neighbor with anti-regime leaflets, USB sticks, and Bible verses, among other things
Lower court had earlier said abortions could continue even amid Roe reversal.
Chinese President Xi Jinping heralded the success of Beijing’s “one country, two systems” policy with Hong Kong, rejecting criticism of his crackdown on its pro-democracy movement as he commemorated the 25-year anniversary of its return to Chinese control on Friday