When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just ...

WASHINGTON -- Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him, signed the Voting Rights Act ...

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Sexual harassment was among a number of employment-related complaints received by the Human Rights Commission last year, MPs heard yesterday. The 2024 Human Rights Report was laid in the House of ...

A woman shows a banner reading "we shout it from the heart, now rights" during a pro-surrogacy press conference in Rome, Tuesday 15 October 2024.

The US sanctioned Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other top officials for human rights violations and restricted access to visas.

Texas is beginning a rare mid-decade push to shift its congressional districts ahead of the midterms, a high-risk move with White House backing.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been imploring his colleagues for decades to gut a crucial part of the iconic Voting Rights Act that prohibits practices denying Blacks, Hispanics and ...

GENEVA (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya won a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday in her seven-year legal fight against track and field’s ...

An advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights also concluded that governments have special obligations to protect and support environmental defenders.

The US is imposing sanctions against a senior UN official focused on the human rights of Palestinians, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday.