Heather Barr is associate director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch ... people with psychosocial disabilities in New York City and founded an alternative-to-incarceration ...

World leaders gathering for the United Nations General Assembly’s annual General Debate this week should call for action to ...

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The 24-hour cable channel reached the settlement after a formal review of sexual harassment complaints by the New York City Commission on Human Rights. By Michael M. Grynbaum Today is the last day ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York City said. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams confirmed in a statement that on Monday evening, federal agents arrested Combs ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs, 54, was remanded into federal custody on Tuesday and will now be serving pretrial detention at ...

At least 20 people were killed and over 450 injured after walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanon, the country’s health ministry ...

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The police have been ticketing vendors for violations over the past year, upsetting sellers who say they are just trying to ...

As a Legal Aid lawyer, Steven Banks brought the suit that forces New York to house all families seeking shelter. Now he’s head of the city’s Human Resources Administration. A task force has ...

On September 13, the Bishkek City Court upheld a May 2024 district court acquittal of the then-Bishkek police chief, Bakyt Matmusaev, of negligence charges in Kanatbekova’s death. The ruling is ...

a report by campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. It quoted data showing that more than 6,000 deaths, including around 1,000 civilians killed by Islamists insurgents, have been recorded in ...