Human Rights

This photo essay presents scenes from summer protests in New York City.

Until the border opens and they can return home, Thailand's migrant workers must navigate a labyrinthine immigration system, fight for health care, and struggle to survive, reports Medill Journalism School student Kira Leadholm.

Remote schooling helps fight the pandemic. But considering Venezuela’s education system weaknesses, it could also deepen inequalities, expose adolescents to possible rights violations, and generate tensions in families.

In Louisiana, at least 1,601 people are still incarcerated on the basis of a Jim Crow-era law allowing for conviction by a non-unanimous verdict.

Reaction to the launch of a new human rights group shows how Saudi Arabia’s network of funding and influence will protect its interests.

Working on a deep sea fishing vessel was already one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. Then the pandemic happened.

Prisoners have been excluded from vaccine trials out of concern that they may be coerced into participating, but researchers say that including the vulnerable population in COVID-19 studies could have outsize health benefits.

People in Myanmar's western state are battling a surge in coronavirus in the midst of escalating conflict. The uprising is the latest in a state with a troubled history.

For centuries, the Quilombola people, descendants of escaped African slaves, have survived against insurmountable odds in the Amazon rainforest. Now industrial pollution and a pandemic are threatening their existence.

Designed to hold 3,000 people, Moria refugee camp now has 13,000 residents. The overcrowding makes it nearly impossible to follow social distancing guidelines and practice proper hygiene during the pandemic.

An estimated 300,000 migrant seafarers are languishing mostly forgotten on stranded vessels scattered across seas or in ports because of the pandemic, according to a London-based trade union.

A growing civil war in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and the ongoing pandemic have led some to fear they will never be safe.