Human Rights

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January 3, 2013
EBONY - Even some Christians found fault with Fantasia’s post, saying her wording implies that same-sex marriage should be judged…
November 9, 2012
OPINION - Imagine having two homes and not being welcomed in either one. That is undoubtedly how black LGBT (lesbian,…
October 22, 2012
Last Thursday, “the largest single study of the distribution of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) population in…
June 3, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration has granted visas to two senior officials from Zimbabwe to attend a meeting of…
March 14, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - George Clooney used his Hollywood celebrity Wednesday to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in the volatile…
March 13, 2012
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Actor and human rights activist George Clooney made a quiet visit to a volatile border region…
November 11, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - "It gives me more courage to continue doing the work I'm doing," Mugisha told The Associated Press…
October 18, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - One of America's leading abolitionist organizations has applauded the sentencing of a Nigerian woman for enslaving two…
October 18, 2011
OPINION - Oh, the things that some people will do for money. Or, to put it another way, the terrible…
September 30, 2011
PARIS (AP) - UNESCO's director-general appealed to the organization's executive board Friday to reject a life sciences prize to be…
May 27, 2011
TURALEI, Sudan (AP) - Market stalls in town were completely empty of food. The only items for sale were cigarettes…
January 31, 2011
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - This week's summit, which started Sunday and ends Monday, was dominated by the crisis in Ivory Coast...
December 29, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The data will point out movements of troops, civilians and other signs of impending conflict...
May 29, 2010
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - Malawi's president on Saturday pardoned a gay couple who had been sentenced to 14 years in…
May 20, 2010
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - Hundreds of onlookers inside and outside the court house showed little sympathy. There were shouts of…
May 3, 2010
OPINION - If the United Nations is willing to elevate black unemployment as an egregious human rights concern, I say…
April 9, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The U.S. government and southeastern states have consistently violated the human rights of Hurricane Katrina victirms,…
October 12, 2009
OPINION - When Obama delivered his "gay agenda" speech to the well-fed, well-scrubbed mostly white crowd of gays and lesbians...
September 9, 2009
CAIRO (AP) - A woman journalist convicted of public indecency for wearing trousers outdoors was freed Tuesday...