Julius Rodgers

At the Carmona batey, a rural community of sugar cane workers in the north of the Dominican Republic (D.R.), youth impassionately sang the lyrics to “No Importa el Color, Todos Somos…

Twenty-six Iranian rights groups expressed fury over the appointment of the Islamic Republic as the chair of the UN Human Rights Council 2023 Social Forum. A group of doctors, lawyers…

Right-wing activists on Wednesday launched a “Jews Against Soros” grassroots coalition, aimed at combating allegations that attacking the Jewish billionaire is antisemitic. Spearheaded by senior Newsweek editor Josh Hammer and…

Prepare yourself for a Pride Month imbued with callous intolerance. Fueled by right-wing media personalities and institutions like Fox News, conservatives are waging a ferocious war on companies that express…

The arrest and ongoing detention of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a prominent civil society activist in Azerbaijan, provides yet another illustration of the government’s intolerance towards independent civic activism in the country.…

Harry Belafonte, the singer and actor who smashed racial barriers in the US, has died at home in Manhattan, aged 96. One of the most successful African-American pop stars in…

4 human rights activists have been detained in Burundi while trying to travel to Uganda for a meeting with civil society organizations. Speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of…

A human rights activist and member of the Thailand-based Free Laos group was arrested when he recently returned to Laos to visit his hometown, friends of the activist told Radio…

Emerging from Rio’s slums, he helped Edward Snowden reveal classified documents and lobbied for his asylum before rising to his country’s Congress. David Miranda, a child of the Rio de…

Amnesty International Indonesia on Tuesday issued its 2022 annual report revealing the myriad of attacks against human rights defenders in Indonesia throughout the year. The watchdog’s researcher Saufa Ata Taqiyya…