Jonathan Combs-Schilling, associate professor of Italian at Ohio State, submitted this letter on behalf of the university’s chapter of Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine. FSJP comprises faculty, ...

Iran’s “repression of peaceful protests” and “institutional discrimination against women and girls” has led to human rights violations, some of which amount to “crimes against humanity,” according to ...

Sexual repression refers to the conscious or unconscious suppression of sexual desires, thoughts, behaviors, or expressions. Repression of sexual desire may stem from cultural norms, including those ...

On 26 September 2022, a university professor, two former lawmakers, a Cantopop singer and a Catholic cardinal were charged by the Hong Kong government for failing to register a humanitarian aid fund ...

We, the undersigned artists—along with PEN International, PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), and Human Rights Watch—call on the Cuban government to respect the fundamental right to ...

When do persecuted ethnic minority groups choose to assimilate into the dominant majority group, rather than differentiate from it, and how do states respond? We argue that any answer to these ...

On a December night last year in Caracas, opposition activist Jesús Armas stepped out of a café and walked toward his car.

For more on the 2021 Emerson College incident associated with this image, see the bottom of this post. From today's long and detailed Washington Post article by Shibani Mahtani, Meg Kelly, Cate Brown, ...

The Council today decided to impose restrictive measures on an additional 12 individuals and 8 entities for their role in the ongoing internal repression and human rights abuses in Belarus. These ...

A man was sent to prison for trying to take a video of a long line to buy gas bottles, another 15 people were tried Tuesday ...