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The "Great Reset" being pushed by the World Economic Forum is a tyrannical plan being advanced by the ...

Rishi Sunak’s policy history and cabinet appointments have raised fears of even more benefits cuts and a drastic curtailing of basic rights, says Tanupriya Singh. By Tanupriya Singh Peoples Dispatch At a time when over 11 million people in the U.K. are expected to fall into fuel poverty a

The purchasing power of citizens in Lebanon continues to take a downward trajectory amid an economic crisis that has been ranked among the harshest and most severe crises in the world, with it...

Over half of transgender and nonbinary people who died in the Portland metro area over the past decade were misgendered on their death certificates, a new study from tri-county officials found. The findings underscore how the region’s death investigation system is not set up to record valuable gender identity information. “What we learned will likely alarm anyone who identities as transgender or nonbinary–or anyone who cares about the rights of transgender and gender nonconform...

There is a growing concern that all the development in Bangladesh has come at the expense of democracy and rights. A common response to this concern is that at least over the last 50 years, this poor, war-torn nation has transformed itself into an almost middle-income nation where basic needs are met. Shouldn’t dignity be a part of these basic needs? And has this basic need

The Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), the Islamic State’s (ISIS) affiliate in Afghanistan, has repeatedly attacked Hazaras and other religious minorities at their mosques, schools and workplaces.

False claims are circulating that Sprague High School has litter boxes for students in its bathrooms. Officials confirmed this is not true.

THE Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) yesterday called on the government to accept a 2013 judgment by the African Court on Human and People’s Rights that directed it to allow independent candidates.

Totalitarian government has found a way to violate the Constitution and the basic rights of citizens by using ...

A new report from the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released on Wednesday, confirms the erosion of basic human rights across the country since the Taliban takeover in August last year, pointing out they bear responsibility for extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, and violations of fundamental freedoms.