Civic Equality

Freedom of religion is a basic right in the United States. It is an important component of American democracy and of America's diverse society.

U.S. Special Envoy Elan Carr joined others to march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the sites of a particularly notorious Nazi concentration camp.

The Chinese government calls internment camps in Xinjiang "vocational training centers," but a widely distributed photo tells a different story

Why are the Crimean Tatars such a threat to the Russian authorities? Conditions worsen for the indigenous people of Crimea under Russian occupation.

While women around the world have been breaking barriers for decades, Iranian women have struggled to gain back the basic human freedoms they lost in 1979.

When athletes gathered to compete in the Special Olympics World Games, they became part of a movement that has changed ideas about who plays sports.

The latest Human Rights Report from the U.S. reveals the Iranian regime commits human-rights abuses as a routine matter of government policy.

A growing number of deaf-friendly and signing-first businesses — which use sign language as their primary form of communication — are opening in the U.S.

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