Tag: Human rights and civil liberties
More than 200 NGOs call for UN arms embargo on Myanmar
<p>UNITED NATIONS — More than 200 global organizations urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar, saying the...
Home of San Francisco’s 1st same-sex spouses now a landmark
SAN FRANCISCO — The hilltop cottage belonging to a lesbian couple who were the first same-sex partners to legally marry in San Francisco has...
Home of San Francisco’s 1st same-sex spouses now a landmark
<p>SAN FRANCISCO — The hilltop cottage belonging to a lesbian couple who were the first same-sex partners to legally marry in San Francisco has...
As pandemic ebbs, an old fear is new again: mass shootings
PORTLAND, Ore. — Brianne Smith was overjoyed to get an e-mail telling her to schedule a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Hours later,...
EXPLAINER: Will Donald Trump return to Facebook?
<p>Former President Donald Trump will find out whether he gets to return to Facebook on Wednesday, when the social network’s quasi-independent Oversight Board plans...
E Indiana woman gets 55 years in slaying of child’s father
PORTLAND, Ind. — A judge sentenced an eastern Indiana woman to 55 years in prison Tuesday after a jury convicted her of murder in...
E Indiana woman gets 55 years in slaying of child’s father
<p>PORTLAND, Ind. — A judge sentenced an eastern Indiana woman to 55 years in prison Tuesday after a jury convicted her of murder in...
Man who fatally shot 3 at Kansas Jewish sites dies in prison
An avowed anti-Semite who fatally shot three people at Jewish sites in Kansas in 2014 has died in prison, the Kansas Department of Corrections...
US report: Taliban will likely curtail Afghan women’s rights
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies are warning that any gains in women's rights in Afghanistan made in the last two decades will be at...
US report: Taliban will likely curtail Afghan women’s rights
<p>WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies are warning that any gains in women's rights in Afghanistan made in the last two decades will be at...