New guidance was sent to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad Thursday, according to a senior state department official.

The 2024 version of the State Department report issued by the Trump administration in August already removed or significantly reduced sections on political freedoms, corruption, gender-based violence, ...

The US State Department will focus on “natural rights” like freedom of speech in its next human rights report, a senior State ...

U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for ...

For nearly half a century, the State Department has reported annually on human-rights conditions in countries around the world. The purpose of this exercise is not to cast aspersions, but to collect ...

When people think about female genital mutilation/cutting, or FGM/C, they associate it with places like Africa or the Middle East. But FGM/C is happening here, in the United States, and shockingly, ...

Bonita Meyersfeld has received funding from the National Research Foundation as part of her NRF rating. There is some disagreement among legal practitioners and scholars about whether corporations ...

Ms. Dagres is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute. Ms. Pourzand is the executive director of the Siamak Pourzand Foundation. Dr. Shannon is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Middle East ...

Human rights organizations in Greece condemned a new law for its alleged violation of international and EU legal protections for asylum-seekers in a joint release on Wednesday. The law bars ...