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PHILADELPHIA — A nonprofit aimed at advancing civil and human rights of Jewish people has filed a federal complaint against the University of Pennsylvania, saying it failed to address harassment and discrimination against its students. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law also this week filed a separate Title IV complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights against Wellesley College. As part of its mission of advocacy, research and education, the center has filed complaints on behalf of students at universities, including the University of Vermont ......

NEW YORK — A New York-based United Nations human rights official has resigned over the organization’s response to the situation in Gaza, which he described as a “textbook case of genocide.” Craig Mokhiber, the director in the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, announced his resignation in a letter shared publicly on Tuesday — more than three weeks into the Israel-Hamas conflict. “This is a textbook case of genocide,” he wrote in an Oct. 28 letter to Volker Türk, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights. “The European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Pa......

“Don’t say gay.” “Bathroom bills.” Bans on transgender healthcare. This year, Florida lawmakers made national headlines for approving anti-LGBTQ+ measures. And as those laws went into effect, they have pushed a majority of transgender Floridians to consider leaving the state, according to results of a survey released Thursday morning. The survey, co-sponsored and released by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, found that four of five transgender people wanted — or were planning — to leave Florida for another state or country because of gender-affirming care bans. More than 93% stated that th......

As deadly gang violence unfolds against another Port-au-Prince neighborhood and another police officer lost his life trying to help the public fend off armed attacks, Human Rights Watch is calling on the international community to act urgently to support Haiti in overcoming its security crisis and ensuring a transition to democracy. The call from the international rights group comes as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is due to present options to the Security Council on how to fight Haiti’s criminal groups and as the government of Kenya prepares to send a team to New York and ......

Congress and the United States’ top American diplomat called on the Cuban government Tuesday to release all political prisoners, many of whom were arrested for joining pro-democracy protests two years ago. To mark the second anniversary of protests that spread through the island on July 11, 2021, the chairmen of the Senate and House committees dealing with foreign affairs, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, introduced a bipartisan resolution “condemning the ongoing acts of repression and human rights violations against the Cuban people by the Cuban regime, and ca......

Iran has executed three men accused of deadly violence during massive anti-government protests that engulfed the country last year. Saeed Yaqoubi, 37, Saleh Mirhashemi, 36, and Majid Kazemi, 30, were accused of killing three people last November in Isfahan, about 210 miles south of Tehran. They were executed Friday morning, Mizan News Agency reported. The execution took place at Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, despite intense pressure and condemnation from human rights organizations in Iran and abroad, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency. Human rights groups claim Iranian authoriti......