President Obama presents the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award to Magodonga Mahlangu.

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Jim and Tracy learn that in nations like Sierra Leone children as young as 12 are forced to smile, wave, and shake hands unti...

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A high-level panel of legal experts found that the western countries have actively undermined international law in the course...

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko on Thursday (April 12) dismissed a report by the U.S. State department on...

Indonesian prosecutors have submitted fresh evidence about the murder of the country's most prominent human rights activist, ...

The United Nations' top human rights official on Friday said that waterboarding qualified as torture.

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