List of Human Rights articles
![A person with a small dog stands in front of a blue pond, with snow-topped mountains and a bright blue sky in the background. The person is on a gravel surface surrounded by white fences, with light brown shrubs all around the area.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1-GettyImages-2042744043.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Hidden Trade-Offs of Climate Policy
Today’s green dogmas cannot deliver an energy transition that is fast, just, and sustainable—all at the same time.
![A supporter of same-sex marriage waves an LGBTQI+ pride flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington on June 26, 2023.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lgbtqi-GettyImages-1502430453.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Protecting LGBTQI+ Rights Is Good Foreign Policy
The United States has both a moral and strategic imperative to fight for equality globally.
![Trucks carrying Syrian refugees and their belongings prepare to leave Lebanon for Syria, in Arsal, Lebanon, on May 14.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Syrian-refugees-Lebanon-deportation-repatriation-GettyImages-2152335504.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Syrians in Lebanon Are Stuck in Limbo
Refugees have become an easy scapegoat for the country’s crisis—and face rising hostility from the government.
![Afghan refugees carry their belongings after being deported back from Iran at the Islam Qala Border between Afghanistan and Iran, in the western Herat province, on May 30.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Afghan-refugees-Iran-GettyImages-2154706359.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Afghan Asylum Seekers Face Hostility in Iran
As the country heads to a presidential run-off election, its largest immigrant population has featured prominently in the debate.
![A child attends morning prayers at a mosque in Xundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County in Yunnan province, China, on Aug. 12, 2019.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/muslim-hui-china-children-2019-08-12T050058Z_200393205_RC17D89C4170_RTRMADP_3_RELIGION-EID-CHINA.JPG.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Beijing’s Crackdown on Islam Is Coming for Kids
Techniques honed in Xinjiang are being normalized against new targets.
![A satellite view of Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands in the Chagos Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/diego-garcia-indian-ocean-us-GettyImages-826357064.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Why Diego Garcia Matters
A dispute over a tiny island in the Indian Ocean presents complications for U.S. goals in the Indo-Pacific.
![Arms reach up to sacks of aid as they are unloaded by people atop them on a truck above.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Chad-Sudan-refugee-aid-Ed-ram-photo-24.05.17-CHD-FP-AID-EXP-9.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The World’s Refugee Relief Is Utterly Broken
Millions of Sudanese are fleeing a warzone—and exposing the world’s bankrupt response.
![Families who have fled from the war in Sudan carry their belongings while arriving at a transit center for refugees in Renk, South Sudan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sudan-conflict-Darfur-genocide-risk-humanitarian-crisis-Africa-GettyImages-2016310372.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Why Is the World Ignoring a Looming Genocide in Sudan?
Aid workers fear a new disaster as militia forces close in on a major Darfur city.
![A woman and child sit among the graves at Lychakiv military cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 18, 2023.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Ukraine-women-children-GettyImages-1249252101.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Invisible Warriors of Ukraine’s Refugee Crisis
Women's NGOs are leading the charge—but not getting the funding they need.
![Relatives and friends bid farewell to the body of Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa, who was killed in an air strike while working in Khan Younis, Gaza.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1859268275.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
After Al Jazeera, Will Israel Target Its Own Media?
Rights groups worry the closing of the Qatari network is just the beginning.
![Demonstrators face law enforcement officers during a rally against a controversial “foreign agents” bill in Tbilisi, Georgia.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/georgia-foreign-agents-law-protests-police-GettyImages-2150362530.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Georgia’s Protests Are Different This Time
A new foreign agents law could be the death knell of a once-promising young democracy.
![Two boys sit with empty pots as they queue for aid.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GettyImages-2082108747-e1714402823910.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
How to Stave Off a Famine in Gaza
Two experts reflect on the impact of international pressure amid a fraught conflict.
![Girls walk to class on the first day of school in a Yazidi displacement camp about 9 miles from the city of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Nov. 1, 2021.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Yazidi-girls-school-IDP-camp-Iraqi-Kurdistan-GettyImages-1236271229.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Iraqi Kurdistan’s Ethnic Minorities Are Under Attack
A power struggle between Baghdad and Erbil is targeting the country’s most vulnerable.
![A Palestinian woman and her son look out on the street ahead of a funeral procession of Palestinian men killed in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the West Bank.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Gaza-refugees-GettyImages-2148018919.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Egypt Is Obliged to Let Gaza Refugees In
Cairo’s decision to seal the border has exacerbated a humanitarian disaster. It’s also illegal.
![Children play near tents at a camp in southern Gedaref, Sudan.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sudan-war-GettyImages-2094517424.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Sudan Is Not a Lost Cause
A year into the conflict, fatalistic rhetoric continues to limit the world’s attention—and actions—toward Sudan.