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 ...

and news reports by the New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, and the BBC. Human Rights Watch also met with diplomats from nine countries that have seats on the UN Security Council at time of ...

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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 ...

(New York) – Bangladesh's interim government ... disappearances during the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina, Human Rights Watch said today. The interim administration, led by the Nobel Peace ...

Ukraine’s government will then need to formally deposit a ratification instrument with the United Nations in New York ... have access to justice, Human Rights Watch said. The law seeks to ...

Nearly 200 years after slavery was outlawed in New York, proponents of a New York City reparations package tell The New York ...

SINGAPORE — Pope Francis on Thursday praised Singapore’s economic strength as a testament to human ingenuity but urged the ...

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 ...

Women from inside and outside the country have joined in the campaign challenging the Taliban’s new so-called vice ... the United Nations human rights chief, called on the Taliban to immediately ...