human rights

Trans woman awarded $35K in leg waxing incident where owner allegedly said they didn't have to serve 'someone like you'

A transgender woman who was refused a leg wax in Ontario has been awarded $35,000.

New photos reveal savage mega-prison that was built to hold 40K inmates — with no prisoner ever freed

A series of bone-chilling new photos show the barbarous conditions inside a mega-prison in El Salvador that was built to hold gangbangers from the country’s most violent criminal organizations.

Iran's death sentence for rapper shows how far it'll go to squelch dissent

There’s no length Iran won’t go to in order to quash dissent. Murder included.

Anti-Israel protests at Columbia: Letters to the Editor — April 22, 2024

NY Post readers discuss the raucous pro-Hamas protests on the grounds of Columbia University.

Campus 'pro-Palestine' protesters ignore how they're enabling a new Holocaust

As Columbia kids continue their pro-Hamas protests, we have to wonder if they’re really even thought about what they actually want.

Iran is preparing to murder a hip-hop artist for committing . . . music

In 2022, Iran had a 22-year-old woman murdered for improperly wearing a hijab and now, it’s preparing to have a 33-year-old killed just for rapping about it.

Inside Putin's bloody reign: Alexei Navalny is just latest casualty of ruthless Kremlin overlord 

Russia's strongman leader is being blamed for the opposition leader's death — the latest in his alleged kill list.

AOC tiptoes around calling Israel's military action 'genocide' -- despite accusing Biden admin of backing 'war crimes'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sidestepped NBC's Kristen Welker's question over whether calling Israel's military action a "genocide" has gone overboard. The progressive firebrand (D-NY) has been a harsh critic of Israel's military strategy,...

Biden’s prisoner swap is a slap in the face to starving Venezuelans

The United States released Alex Saab, a notorious associate of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, Wednesday in exchange for 10 American prisoners.

Comedian Sarah Silverman claims she was 'stoned' when she endorsed Israeli move to shut off Gaza's water, electricity

Comedian Sarah Silverman claimed she made a "mistake" while "stoned" after she shared a post that defended Israel's move to pressure Hamas for the release of hostages by cutting off...

NYU law student who cheered Hamas attack 'will continue to speak out' despite backlash

A New York University law student who sent a pro-Hamas message has doubled down on the incendiary rhetoric ��� despite facing removal as president of the school’s Student Bar Association...

Biden gets it precisely right in defending Ukraine in its war with Russia

President Biden at the UN General Assembly said, “Sovereignty, territorial integrity, human rights — these are the core tenets of the UN Charter, the pillars of peaceful relations among nations."

Hold Iran to account for Mahsa Amini's murder (and other horrors) when UN meets next week

One year ago, Iran's police arrested Mahsa Amini as a few strands of her hair were flowing free of her hijab and died 3 days later leading to a year...

We should be protecting the right to religious freedom

Danish officials plan to criminalize Koran burnings after controversial incidents in Denmark and Sweden and increasingly heated protests and deteriorating relations with other countries. 

Ohio cops release bodycam vid of officer shooting dead pregnant driver Ta’Kiya Young after she refused to leave her car

A court has ordered the brutal execution of a teacher over just five tweets as the nation sends “a clear and sinister message”.

Obama's worries on Joe, Dominican rights crisis and other commentary

In the DR, “the Biden administration is seemingly enabling a crisis” of “preventive detention, which holds individuals indefinitely in prison before trial.”

BlackRock, MSCI probed by lawmakers over investments in blacklisted Chinese companies

The firms have facilitated American capital flow into the companies the US government had found guilty of fueling China's military advancement or human rights abuses, the House's Select Committee on...

LGBTQ state of emergency declared in the US by Human Rights Campaign

The largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the United States declared its first-ever national state of emergency Tuesday, decrying the increase in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation looking to regulate the lives of queer...

Anheuser-Busch loses LGBTQ+ rating for flubbing 'key moment' to stand up for Dylan Mulvaney

The nation's largest gay advocacy group stripped Anheuser-Busch of a key metric following the beer giant's backpedaling over Bud Light's controversial tie-up with Dylan Mulvaney.

Guess the new Human Rights Watch director's first target. Yup: Israel

For the first time in 30 years, Human Rights Watch has a new executive director, Tirana Hassan.