human rights

A state agency in New York has filed an administrative complaint against Amazon alleging discrimination against pregnant and disabled workers by denying them “reasonable accommodations” and forcing them to take unpaid leave.

A state agency in New York has filed an administrative complaint against Amazon, alleging the e-commerce giant discriminated against pregnant and disabled workers by denying them “reasonable accommodations” and forcing them to take unpaid leave, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Amazon has more than 39,000 workers across New York in nearly two dozen worksites, which employ in-house consultants who evaluate…

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

Prior to the Taliban takeover, 80% of the Afghan government’s budget was funded by the U.S. and other Western donors.

Afghanistan’s tragedy will be less visible when the airlifts end, but the crisis will be a “daily reality for millions of Afghans,” the UN’s Filippo Grandi said.

Freedoms granted to Afghan women will be stripped away by the Taliban despite the group’s claims, Vanda Felbab-Brown of the Brookings Institution said.

Faced with criticism over human rights issues tied to next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics, the IOC said Wednesday that its only responsibility was to “deliver the Games.” International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams was asked at the Tokyo Games about the moral responsibility in seeing to it that athletes and sponsors did not become complicit in supporting alleged human...

When Olympic diver Tom Daley announced in 2013 that he was dating a man and “couldn’t be happier,” his coming out was an act of courage that, with its rarity, also exposed how the top echelons of sports weren’t seen as a safe space by the vast majority of LGBTQ athletes. Back then, the number of gay Olympians who felt able...

British diver Tom Daley won a gold medal on Monday, but for the 27-year-old, its significance is about more than athletics. “To be an Olympic champion now just shows that you can achieve anything.”

Rising temperatures due to climate change are already forcing Olympic organizers to rethink where events are held and how they are planned. In the future could we be watching the Summer Olympics during the winter? NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain takes a look at how climate change is already changing the Olympic experience and what may come next.

The Biden administration has invited United Nations experts on racism to visit the United States in an effort to address racial justice and equality.

It’s the first time any diplomatic mission has flown a gay pride flag in the religiously conservative Arab Gulf, causing controversy.