Ecuadorian police and security forces have restricted freedom of assembly and at times used excessive force in their response to anti-government protests since mid-September, 2025.

Federal agents block people protesting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a nearby licensed cannabis farm in Ventura County, California, on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images ...

This conduct is the stuff of Stalin, of the Iranian mullahs, of Mussolini and, yes, of Hitler in the early to mid 1930s.

Survivors are being separated from their families — and in some cases being sent straight back to their abusers.” ...

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A Metro Detroit woman and human rights attorney has returned from the Middle East after the boat she was on that was bound for Gaza was seized by Israeli military forces.

Human rights lawyers accused 122 European officials of committing crimes against migrants in the Mediterranean Sea ...

Lawyers argue that the agency’s new policies have led to the detention and removal of victims of domestic violence and trafficking, despite their legal protections.

Janai Nelson, a longtime civil rights attorney, was the woman who argued on behalf of Black voters and what is left of the VRA in Louisiana v. Callais. It was Nelson’s first case before the Supreme ...

A Metro Detroit civil and human rights attorney is returning to America after she was released from Israeli custody.

Houthi Authorities in Yemen arrested the human rights lawyer Abdulmajeed Sabra on September 25, 2025, for a social media post marking an independence holiday opposed by the Houthis.