According to local human rights organization who have been monitoring the burned facility, doors were padlocked and migrants were stripped of their property leaving them little opportunity to start a fire—or escape
"If these gentlemen were interested in defending human rights, they would be in Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela, where crimes against humanity are committed daily," said Colombian senator María Fernanda Cabal
The group is being accused of destabilizing governments and several other human rights violations, including targeting women and children in Ukraine, attacking schools and hospitals, and forcibly relocating civilians
The NGO Provea published the 33rd edition of its Annual Report on the Human Rights Situation in Venezuela
The 66-year-old Chinese politburo member was sanctioned by the United States last year for his role facilitating "serious human rights abuse" in Xinjiang
Lyudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s official ombudsman for human rights, told the BBC that she has documented multiple cases of rape, torture and abuse by Russian forces in her country
Boston Celtics player and human rights activist Enes Kanter will change his name Monday in celebration of becoming a U.S. citizen.
A new document approved by Pope Francis denounces practices such as abortion, surrogacy and “gender ideology,” while defending the rights of LGBTI people
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights asked to determine the causes of the deaths of 410 civilians found in the cities surrounding Kyiv
Petro's comments generated a great commotion in Colombia, and received criticism from former presidents Andrés Pastrana and Iván Duque, as well as from several jurists and Human Rights Watch (HRW)