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Cuban voters have approved a sweeping “family law” code that will allow same-sex couples to marry and adopt as well as redefining rights for children and grandparents. Official news media say the measure passed by 66.9% to 33.1% in an unusual national referendum. The reforms met unusually strong open resistance from the growing evangelical movement in Cuba despite an extensive...

A long-awaited report from the U.N. human rights office says China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity.

A Mexican official says six of the 43 college students “disappeared” in 2014 were allegedly kept alive in a warehouse for days then turned over to the local army commander who ordered them killed.

Weeks before 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested for allegedly planning to riot at a northern Idaho LGBTQ pride event, an Idaho pastor told his Boise congregation that gay, lesbian and transgender people should be executed by the government.

As the nation awaits a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court regarding a Mississippi law that calls for banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, LGBTQ advocates are pushing to codify protections for same-sex marriage in states throughout the country.

Woman and girls pay the “highest price” during conflicts like the one in Ukraine, the executive director of U.N. Women told CNBC.

The high court will hear the challenge to a Colorado law that bars businesses from refusing to serve customers based on their sexual orientation.

Ahead of the Beijing summer Olympics 14 years ago, Tibet was on fire

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are kicking off this week, and they’re marred in controversy for several reasons. The country’s strict censorship is making it difficult for media to cover the events, and its zero-COVID policy has resulted in widespread lockdowns, closing off neighborhoods in the capital city and mass testing 2 million people. The International Olympic Committee has also…

The U.N. says the situation in Myanmar has been worsening since the turn of the year, warning that people in the country are facing an unprecedented crisis.

A UN conference failed to agree on banning the use and development of so-called “slaughterbots” at a meeting in Geneva last week.

Formula One has faced criticism for allowing the Grand Prix to go ahead in Saudi Arabia this weekend.

A humanitarian effort seeks to monitor human rights violations and assist in the rescue of migrants fleeing Libya to Europe by boat on the Mediterranean Sea.

The Beijing Winter Olympics open in four months — just six months after the Summer Games wrapped up in Tokyo