The law prohibits workplaces and schools from discriminating against natural and protective hairstyles typically worn by people of color.

Human rights issues—from equal treatment for minorities to freedoms enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights, such as speech, ...

As global supply chains face growing scrutiny, the textile sector is shifting toward greater responsibility. Vaude, a German ...

Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to ...

Nigerian authorities should act urgently to secure the safe release of students and teachers recently kidnapped in the country’s northwest and take concrete steps to protect schools and communities ...

Rather than leaving, the government is proposing sweeping changes. On November 17th it announced an overhaul of the asylum ...

The African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights should act decisively to address the dire, protracted human rights ...

In this concluding part of the series of investigation, JULIANA FRANCIS and ANGELA NKWOAKPOLU spotlight the modern forms of ...

After months of defections by renegade school boards from affirmative state policies for transgender students in Maine, the ...

The Trump administration is officially taking steps to dismantle the Department of Education. The idea has been around for ...

CHENNAI, India — Now that artificial intelligence has mastered almost everything we do online, it needs help learning how we physically move around in the real world. A growing global army of trainers ...

Harrowing footage from the Civil Rights era—courageous protesters demanding their right to vote, met with batons and tear gas—still haunts the American conscience. Those searing images of ...