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## Human Rights


* ![China flag](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc3ed0cd1889e217f/698a08e416d8843d5ec3793e/China-flag.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 15, 2020  
## [China Refutes Human Rights Report](https://time.com/5765467/china-hrw-human-rights-report/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Sanya Mansoor
* ![Walk For Freedom, Anti Modern Slavery Protest In London](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30c85df8eeb6edc2/698a06cc096a94a9e26a7625/GettyImages-861200910.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 2, 2019  
## [Slavery Still Exists All Around the World. Here's How Some Countries Are Trying to Change That](https://time.com/5741714/end-modern-slavery-initiatives/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Suyin Haynes
* ![Children march around Southbank Centre in London to celebrate children and young people's rights on Oct. 22, 2015.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt103cf4819a8e06a9/698a065a4ee262a2df316a8f/world-children-day-united-nations.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 20, 2019  
## [Angelina Jolie Interviews One of the Drafters of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Children: ‘Children Need to Know Their Rights’](https://time.com/5732844/angelina-jolie-and-geraldine-van-bueren-on-childrens-rights/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Angelina Jolie
* ![Police Check Fishing Boats In Fight Against Human Trafficking And Illegal, Unreported And Unregulated Fishing](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbd84679fa5d49b29/698a009309208f2b6a4154dc/thai-fishing-industry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 30, 2019  
## [Human Trafficking Has a Hidden Cause — and It's on the Rise Worldwide](https://time.com/5638667/human-trafficking-cause/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by Prachi Vidwans and Malaak Jamal
* ![US-UN-RIGHTS-DIPLOMACY](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4977380766996146/6989337d22fb85a16be25f66/gettyimages-978855062.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 20, 2018  
## [Trump Leaving the Human Rights Council Will Only Weaken America](https://time.com/5317396/trump-nikki-haley-un-human-rights-council/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by Erika Guevara-Rosas  
* ![PHILIPPINES-POLITICS-RIGHTS](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt11c2d3aa7f9be253/698931bfdb2987582625fc9d/gettyimages-923743770.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 30, 2018  
## [What the Philippines Tells Us About the Broken Promises of Human Rights](https://time.com/5294301/what-the-philippines-tells-us-about-the-broken-promises-of-human-rights/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
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Feb 22, 2018  
## [Amnesty Makes Scathing Assessment of Human Rights](https://time.com/5167995/amnesty-2018-state-of-worlds-human-rights-report/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Laignee Barron
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Dec 19, 2017  
## [Egypt Is Holding at Least 18 Americans Captive. Activists Want The White House to Fight for Their Release](https://time.com/5070017/egypt-captive-americans/)  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)  
by Elizabeth Dias
* ![ZIMBABWE-POLITICS](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87cb84999d19fbbc/6988e6ece76ad20b3d6300eb/gettyimages-875264708.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 27, 2017  
## [3 Reasons Human Rights Defenders Should Feel Optimistic Right Now](https://time.com/5037701/amnesty-international-ratko-mladic-robert-mugabe/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
by Anna Neistat
* ![Yemen](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt721fc3cfb00b201e/6988e58b929fad1a10bee754/yemen_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 22, 2017  
## [Yemen Could Be Out of Food in Six Weeks, Aid Official Warns](https://time.com/5035106/yemen-saudi-blockade-food-water/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Elizabeth Dias  
* ![BELGIUM-TURKEY-AMNESTY-TANNER-PROTEST](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt22943db9ce9846dc/6988d58eab6d774ee16aef14/amnesty-international-turkey-arrests.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 13, 2017  
## [Rights Groups Pen Open Letter Against Turkey Detentions](https://time.com/4856669/amnesty-international-arrest-human-rights-turkey/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Rachel Lewis
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Jul 3, 2017  
## [Beijing Hits Out at U.S. Navy Exercises in South China Sea](https://time.com/4843494/donald-trump-south-china-sea-xi-jinping/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Charlie Campbell
* ![Otto Warmbier](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9cbb1d3730ce0b16/6988d1cc86f68e48db6e5280/united-states-north-k_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 20, 2017  
## [What Can the U.S. Do After Otto Warmbier's Death? Sadly, Not Much](https://time.com/4824670/north-korea-otto-warmbier-kim-jong-un-torture/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Charlie Campbell
* ![Dennis Rodman](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53a82611affd1f38/6988d1654ee262e3a030db42/ap_17164283903190.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 13, 2017  
## [Dennis Rodman Returns to North Korea](https://time.com/4815965/dennis-rodman-north-korea-kim-jong-un-nba-basketball/)  
[WORLD](/section/world/)  
by Charlie Campbell
* ![American Visionary: John F. Kennedy's Life And Times At Smithsonian American Art Museum On May 2](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6be096bb1f5fff29/6988cc62a988ca4af46bc1ef/gettyimages-676856252.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 8, 2017  
## [Sen. John McCain Warns Rex Tillerson: 'We Are a Country With a Conscience'](https://time.com/4770891/sen-john-mccain-rex-tillerson-foreign-policy/)  
[POLITICS](/section/politics/)  
by Maya Rhodan

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