On Wednesday, the Obama administration announced the appointment of the first out transgender White House staffer, Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, who will be in charge of outreach and recruitment for the presidential personnel office. Freedman-Gurspan has...
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill held a hearing today, and threatened to subpoena internal State Department communications to determine if administration officials placed trade policy above human rights on this year’s human trafficking report. FSRN’s...
A 12-year-old boy is dead after a deadly encounter between civilians and military forces in a coastal town in the Mexican state of Michoacán known for a popular uprising against organized crime. Shannon Young...
Thailand’s military-led government moved to reassure foreign diplomats about new laws after ending martial law last week. But rights activists are concerned the law giving the Prime Minister considerable power has potential for abuse...
Argentine forensic anthropologists contracted as independent experts in the investigation of the 43 students that went missing in the Mexican state of Guerrero have publicly distanced themselves from the federal government’s official story about...
In May of 2013, a Guatemalan court found the country’s former de facto president guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 80 years in prison. The historic trial of General...
The mass abduction of 43 students in the the Mexican city of Iguala on the heels of a deadly ambush by police there drew worldwide attention to systemic human rights abuses committed by corrupt...
Bahraini authorities re-arrested another leading human rights activist this week. One day after returning to Bahrain from an international speaking tour, Nabeel Rajab – President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights – received...
Authorities in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain detained prominent human rights activist Maryam Al-Khawaja over the weekend just shortly after her flight arrived in the nation’s capital, Manama. Al-Khawaja, who lives in Denmark,...
Authorities in the Persian Gulf nation of Bahrain detained prominent human rights activist Maryam Al-Khawaja over the weekend just shortly after her flight arrived in the Bahraini capital, Manama. Al-Khawaja, who lives in Denmark,...
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