As migration from South America to the US-Mexico border once again surges, advocates warn that sexual violence is likewise expected to rise, particularly among women and girls, Alícia Fàbregas reports for Al... Read more »
Up-to-date information for employers on topics and issues that may affect workplace operations. The posts are current as of the date of the posting. by Jennifer Shaw and Brooke Kozak | The... Read more »
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged Congolese authorities to investigate incidents of electoral violence that the human rights organization says imperil the country’s upcoming general elections. In its statement, HRW called... Read more »
Some 180,000 Mexican migrants, traveling in family groups, crossed the border into the U.S. over the 12 months ending in October, four times more than the previous year and a fifth of... Read more »
The White House is hosting nearly 100 lawmakers from 39 states on Wednesday to work on how their states can try to reduce gun violence following the creation of its gun violence... Read more »
A study by a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School with Brigham and Women’s hospital found that the firearm injury incidence rate was 62 percent higher in neighborhoods that had gentrified... Read more »
While Chicago is poised to see a double-digit percentage drop in homicides in 2023, with the Chicago Police Department reporting that homicide detectives have opened 569 murder investigations, a 12 percent decrease... Read more »
According to a UN report issued Tuesday, there has been a rise in gang violence in Haiti’s central rural region, an area previously considered safe from the increased instability in the country.... Read more »
Buck Aldridge, the Camden County, Georgia sheriff’s deputy who recently fatally shot Leonard Cure, a Black man, at point-blank range during a traffic stop, has a history of excessive and violent behavior... Read more »
According to a new Human Rights Campaign report, Thirty-three transgender and gender-nonconforming people have been killed by violence in the United States since last year’s Transgender Day of Remembrance, twenty-six of them... Read more »