Human Rights

Central American migrants ride a freight train during their journey toward the U.S.-Mexico border in Ixtepec, Mexico, in this July 12, 2014, photo. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Conservatives need a human rights agenda

James Jay Carafano · July 27, 2014 9:00 pm

China Targets Moderate Democracy Activist

China Targets Moderate Democracy Activist

Ellen Bork · July 2, 2014 11:15 am

Kerry: ‘I’m Working Hard to … Have Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Ambassadors’

Kerry: ‘I’m Working Hard to … Have Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Ambassadors’

Jeryl Bier · June 23, 2014 10:31 am

Chinese dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng spoke Tuesday about the stagnant progress of human rights in the country where he was born, and from which he was forced to flee in 2012. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Blind political dissident to U.S. officials: Demand human rights in China

Blake Seitz · June 4, 2014 1:40 pm

The OIC went back to the drawing board and with the help of the U.S. Department of State under Secretary Hillary Clinton came up with a document -- Resolution 16/18 -- that spoke of protecting minority religions and dropped the offensive, criticism of religion, prohibition. (AP Photo)

Obama’s State Department has joined the Islamic assault on Western liberty

abraham-miller · June 2, 2014 2:42 pm

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif demanded "immediate action" over Parveen's death. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Pakistan prime minister condemns murder of pregnant woman, as it’s revealed her husband killed his first wife

Ashe Schow · May 29, 2014 7:26 pm

Activists: Morocco back to pre-Arab Spring abuses

SMAIL BELLAOUALLIPAUL SCHEMM · May 29, 2014 3:29 pm

Safia Ama Jan, right, an Afghani women's rights advocate, was killed in 2006. In this undated photo, she greets visiting French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie in Kandahar. (AP Photo/Ama Jan family, HO)

Beltway Confidential

‘Kill list’ targets Afghan women who speak up for human rights

Ashe Schow · May 23, 2014 6:48 pm

Iran opposition activist free after serving term

Iran opposition activist free after serving term

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2014 7:43 pm

In this photo taken on April 26, 2014 and released by Wang Yanfang, wife of lawyer Tang Jingling, Tang holds a placard with Chinese characters "Seventh anniversary of the June 4 memorial day"at an unknown location in China. Chinese authorities detained the human rights lawyer Friday, May 16, 2014, in an ongoing clampdown on journalists, scholars and lawyers ahead of the June 4 anniversary of the 1989 military crackdown on pro-democracy protests. (AP Photo/Family of Tang Jingling)

China detains rights lawyer ahead of anniversary

Didi Tang · May 16, 2014 10:49 am

In this photo taken April 11, 2004, Chinese dissident Xiang Nanfu shares an Easter meal with other Chinese dissidents at a brick home in Houbaihujian village, on the outskirts of Beijing. Xiang who supplied information to to a dissident-run U.S.-based news website has been detained on charges he made up stories that disparaged the Chinese government, police announced Tuesday, May 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China detains man who wrote for foreign website

Didi Tang · May 13, 2014 9:14 am

In this April 30, 2014 photo, Kathleen O'Connor, deputy chief of human rights and special prosecutions section at the Department of Justice, center, speaks to Mohamed Nur, left, with Della Lamb Community Services, of Kansas City, Mo., and Ibrahim Hussein with the East African Community of Orange County, Calif., who are both originally from Somalia, during an event for refugee advocates at the Holiday Inn in Arlington, Va. Justice Department representatives are speaking to immigrant communities to seek their help and coordination in identifying human rights abusers from abroad who have a connection to the United States. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

US encouraging refugees to help human rights cases

Eric Tucker · May 12, 2014 8:12 pm