Massacre in Haiti Ordered by Gang Leader Leaves Over 100 Dead, Rights Group Says
by The killings in a Port-au-Prince slum, which appeared to target practitioners of voodoo, were ordered by a gang leader, a human rights organization said.
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Google Worried Israeli Contract Could Enable Human Rights Violations
The tech giant, which has defended the deal to employees who oppose supplying Israel’s military with technology, feared the project might damage its reputation.
Google Worried Israeli Contract Could Enable Human Rights Violations
The tech giant, which has defended the deal to employees who oppose supplying Israel’s military with technology, feared the project might damage its reputation.
Maternity Leave and Ongoing Consent: New Rights for Belgium’s Sex Workers
A groundbreaking law, which gives some sex workers greater labor protections and social benefits than similar legislation elsewhere in the world, is now in effect …
Hong Kong’s Top Court Upholds Rights of Same-Sex Married Couples
Long-running legal battles culminated in a ruling that preserves public housing benefits and inheritance rights in the territory.
Harris Loss Has Democrats Fighting Over How to Talk About Transgender Rights
Kamala Harris left Donald J. Trump’s anti-transgender attack ads largely unanswered. Some Democrats call it political malpractice.
The Democrat Picking a Fight With His Party Over Transgender Rights
Even as Democrats rebuked Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts for saying he didn’t want his daughters “getting run over” by “formerly male” athletes, he defended …
Pence Urges Republicans Not to Confirm RFK Jr., Citing His Support of Abortion Rights
Former Vice President Mike Pence described Mr. Kennedy, who does not support a federal abortion ban, as a choice unlike any in the modern era …
Trump’s Gains Among Latinos Push a Civil Rights Group to Reflect on Its Past
From its founding nearly a century ago, LULAC encouraged Hispanic people to embrace American identity even as it fought discrimination. The 2024 election result presents …
Paul Stephenson, 87, Dies; Advanced Britain’s Civil Rights Movement
The bus boycott and one-man pub sit-in that he led in the mid-1960s helped pave the way for a law outlawing discrimination in public places.