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”
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) found that Ukrainian journalist Maks Levin, that went missing in March was “executed in cold blood” by his Russian captors, according to a report published Wednesday
California may soon take an anti-prostitution law off the books. State Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, sent the Safer Streets for All Act, Senate Bill 357, to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk in hopes that he'll sign it into law.
The populist leader specifically mentioned the U.N. Security Council, which has five permanent members with absolute veto power – China, France, Russia, Britain and the U.S. – created in 1945 following the Allied victory in World War II
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) was signed into law on Dec. 23. It bans all exports from the Xinjiang region and includes a “rebuttable presumption” that all goods from the area are produced by forced labor, placing the burden of proof on China to provide evidence to the contrary.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing everything short of declaring a general mobilization to make up for significant losses in Ukraine
The administration of former president Moon Jae-in said that Lee had died trying to defect to the North to avoid repaying large debts, reports The Times of London
The new Victims of Communism Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. is the world’s first to describing both the history of communism as well as its current global reach across Europe, Asia, and South America
In a heartwarming wartime Father’s Day message, the Ukrainian president who has two children of his own, honored fathers who “defend” Ukraine
Amelia Calzadilla, whose complaints went viral on social networks, faced intimidation via WhatsApp, according to her father-in-law
Ukrainian refugees too far east to flee toward Europe had to seek refuge in Russia, where they have been processed through “filtration camps” and screened for their loyalties and any military ties