The US State Department on Tuesday released a pared-down version of its annual report meant to catalogue human rights concerns in countries around the world. The report covers the 2024 calendar year – ...

The State Department is pushing back against criticism of its changes to the process of reporting human rights abuses. NPR reported last week that the Trump administration was scaling back annual ...

New details have emerged in a multi-state human trafficking case, with two men being held in a North Carolina jail on charges related to the trafficking of a 15-year-old girl. According to search ...

When I first moved to Thailand in the 1990s to work with a small human rights organization, we waited for the annual U.S. State Department’s human rights report with bated breath. It was not because ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits nearby as U.S. President Donald Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House on April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC.

MARION, Ill. (WSIL) -- Illinois State Police (ISP) arrested eight individuals during a human trafficking demand suppression operation in Marion on October 14 and 15, 2025. ISP said the focus was on ...