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Where it's a crime to be gay: A visual guide to where LGBTQ+ rights are repressed
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoUganda enacted one of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world last week, a bill known as the...
Philippine court finds four policemen guilty in drug war killings
AFP via Yahoo News· 3 days agoFour Philippine policemen were found guilty Tuesday of killing a father and son, court officials...
Donald Trump's New Applause Line Is Pure Authoritarianism
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFormer President Donald Trump has made executing drug dealers a central part of his messaging in...
Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize
Reuters via Yahoo News· 8 months agoImprisoned Iranian women's rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a...
Oklahoma's push to weaken penalties for cockfighting is frustrating opponents of the bloodsport
Associated Press via AOL· 3 months agoBefore Oklahoma became one of the last places in the U.S. to outlaw cockfighting in 2002, it wasn't...
Rights groups welcome Malaysia's move on death penalty
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHuman rights groups on Tuesday applauded Malaysia's move to scrap the mandatory death penalty as a...
Philippines court delivers rare conviction of police officer for drugs war violations
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA Philippine court handed a police officer two life imprisonment sentences for torturing and planting evidence on drugs war victims at the height of former President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody ...
Against the tide
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPro-choice protesters in Argentina. Tomas Cuesta/Getty Images In most of the world, abortion access has been rapidly expanding for decades. Here's...
Oklahoma cockfighting industry says criminal penalties are too steep
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA bill that would support Oklahoma's involvement in the international cockfighting industry is being framed as an extension of the state's criminal justice reform efforts. Senate Bill 1006 would ...
China sends dozens of warplanes and ships near Taiwan to show its anger over island's new leaders
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoTaiwan tracked dozens of Chinese warplanes and navy vessels off its coast on Friday, the second day...