Haitian women are on the front lines of the country’s crisis, yet they are being denied a seat at the table. Jessica Anania June 19, 2024, 8:00 AM On May…

AFP 19 June 2024 0 min 52Approximate reading time A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced 10 retired soldiers to up to 12 years in prison for having raped nine rural…

Monique Clesca is a journalist and former U.N. official in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. One morning this spring, as the sun’s orange tints seeped through my windows in the mountains east of…

In a report published today, the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) calls on Switzerland to take more measures against trafficking, particularly by improving…

Geneva (19 June 2024) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture is alarmed at the prevalence, frequency and intensity of sexual torture in current armed conflicts. In this past…

“It didn’t even feel like learning.” Illustration by Tyler Comrie for The Atlantic Recently, an old friend of mine from elementary school ran a hand over my bookshelf, stopped, and said,…

A white protester applauds speakers in Brooklyn last year during a rally to celebrate Juneteenth. “By embracing the liberation struggle and each of its signal events, of which Juneteenth is…

The anniversary of an 1865 announcement by a Union military official in Texas has grown over the years into a celebration of emancipation - the end of slavery in the…

Do you know the story of Juneteenth?  Can you imagine it? June 19, 1865, the day that General Order No. 3 “informed all Texans that, in accordance with a Proclamation from the…

Narges Mohammadi, Iran’s most prominent human rights activist and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been sentenced to another year in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, her lawyer said Tuesday. Jailed…