After an alleged war criminal was set free, Syrians are questioning whether their new interim government genuinely wants justice after 14 years of civil war. As a result of such doubts, vigilante ...

Rights activists in Iran fear intensified crackdowns following Israel's air campaign targeting Iran's nuclear program.

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, demand an end to Israel’s arbitrary detention of Palestinian health workers ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirms that several African presidents with lengthy tenures first came to power through freedom movements. Over time, many used harsh tactics to secure their authority ...

He began investigating his father’s involvement in the civil rights movement in the South, which led him to learn about unpunished racist murders and other violent incidents from the time. In 2005, an ...

Penn Township author Ron Kirkwood spent 17 days in 2022 at the National Archives in Washington, DC, scouring hundreds of ...

Juneteenth marks the jubilant day in 1865 when many of the more than 250,000 people who were enslaved in Texas finally learned they were legally free. This deliberately delayed news was delivered by ...

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the community marks Juneteenth.

Did you know Tennessee has two holidays celebrating Emancipation from slavery? Juneteenth, the federal holiday, and August 8.

On May 28, 1991, Ethiopian rebels seized the presidential palace and tightened their control of the capital of Addis Ababa, effectively ending a 16-year civil war.

Amnesty did not immediately reply to a request by Sky News for comment, but Human Rights Watch - another international civil rights group - said the ban "simply highlights Russia's ambition to ...

Russia announced Monday it would ban human rights NGO Amnesty International in the Kremlin’s latest crackdown on civil society groups opposing its war in Ukraine. The federal prosecutor’s office ...