"Under Cane," a short documentary captured by photographer and filmmaker Ed Kashi for La Isla Foundation, showed the lives of numerous individuals touched by the disease that killed thousands, particularly in Nicaragua. More than 20,000 individuals, mostly male, have died from chronic kidney disease after working on the fields. Said to be an epidemic, the disease is spreading rabidly among sugarcane harvesters.
A top United States diplomat visited Sri Lanka Monday for the first time since the country gained new leadership and promised support for the country's new government.
The West African nation of The Gambia has come under criticism from the U.S. State Department as well international human rights organizations after the Gambian legislature approved a law that punishes "aggravated homosexuality" with life in prison. Uganda has also reached the final stages of a new anti-gay law.
American Matthew Miller has been sentenced to 6 years with labor in North Korea after being convicted of hostile acts and illegally entering the country.
Organization claims the country is using a sypware app on dissidents' phones. Human Rights Watch on Saturday claimed that the Saudi Arabian government has been using a spyware app to monitor political dissidents on their mobile phones, according to a report from RT.
Immigration reform advocates ramped up their protests in the last month with one ending in a dozen arrests Monday outside of the White House. The rise in demonstrations comes amid lack of changes or improvements from both the White House and Congress.
The Free LA: No More ICE event was one of 10 similar rallies staged in Southern California, which were all part of about 70 #Not1More demonstrations held across the nation.
The extent of the abuses amount to crimes against humanity, says UN panel United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights has just completed an 11-month inquiry into alleged violations of human rights in North Korea, an issue which is not new knowledge to the international community but one in which finally the international community might take action and do something about the human rights abuses.
Collaboration performance will be about gay rights in America After her ankle injury earlier this week, many fans began to doubt whether Madonna would be able to return to the stage.
The Dominican Republic, a nation that's presently known for its denationalization of Haitians and Haitian-Dominican citizens, rejected a human rights report earlier this month, which states that the Dominican Republic government is guilty of discrimination due to its recent court ruling that will leave hundreds of thousands of Haitians stateless and without citizenship, according to a study.
Malala Yousafzai, 16-year-old educational and women's rights activist, is nothing short of remarkable; she made that apparent with her recent appearance on The Daily Show.
The "Prison Break" star revealed his road to coming out wasn't easy. Wentworth Miller, who recently came out as gay, has revealed that his journey to recently coming out wasn't easy.
