Special to the NNPA from The New York Amsterdam News (The New York Amsterdam News)—Approximately 500 refugees are feared dead after their vessel was rammed by...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Twenty years after signing the “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,” the...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.N. Security Council could impose sanctions on leaders in South Sudan if gross violations of human rights...
SYLVIE CORBET, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The Council of Europe is taking new steps to combat violence against women under a newly ratified convention that...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer Human rights and gay rights activists on Tuesday urged President Barack Obama to ensure that the issue of anti-gay discrimination in...
By Stan Washington Special to the NNPA from The Atlanta Voice On the top floor is the section focusing on the struggle for human rights across...
GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A court in eastern China on Thursday sentenced to up to 6 ½ years in prison three activists who...
(Bloomberg) – East African nations threatened to impose sanctions on South Sudan’s warring sides unless they resolve their differences peacefully and end “flagrant violations” of three agreements...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — New fighting broke out in South Sudan on Sunday less than 48 hours after the country’s president and...
LARA JAKES, AP National Security Writer JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Confronting global fears of genocide, South Sudan’s president tentatively agreed Friday to revitalize peace talks...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 1 million people in South Sudan have fled their homes at a crucial time of...
JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The rainy season is about to start in South Sudan, but war in the world’s newest country has...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the Malaysian government to improve its human rights record...
(CNN) — China and North Korea have slammed a U.N. report that found crimes against humanity committed in the reclusive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. At the...
JUERGEN BAETZ, Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe is set to upgrade its ties with Cuba in a bid to broaden economic cooperation and demand more...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Rebels in Central African Republic decimated a mostly Christian village earlier this month, burning down dozens of homes,...
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president lashed out at criticisms of his nation’s human rights record, saying Thursday that the...
PAUL LOGOTHETIS, AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Spain’s national team will travel to Equatorial Guinea for a friendly game, and the country’s football federation won’t...
