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

Human rights are standards that governments around the world have agreed to meet so that everyone can live a safe, free and dignified life. Human rights are about being treated fairly, treating others ...

Orders to embassies told them to ignore human rights issues like torture and instead focus on trans health care and abortion ...

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

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration earned condemnation from Amnesty International on Thursday over its leaked plans to downplay human rights violations in countries favored by the American ...

Following a years-long campaign from supporters and detractors, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the country’s largest LGBTQ+ ...

When I first moved to Thailand in the 1990s to work with a small human rights organization, we waited for the annual U.S. State Department’s human rights report with bated breath. It was not because ...

The Vatican today told bishops worldwide to report cases of priest sex abuse to local police, a policy that seems late to the game after a littany of sex abuse scandals dogged the Catholic Church ...