U.N. human rights experts on Friday called on Mali to crack down on hereditary slavery after a series of violent attacks against people born into servitude.

Republican legislators announced new legislation titled Keeping our COVID-19 Heroes Employed Act, in an effort to protect the rights of essential employees who worked tirelessly throughout the early stages of the pandemic.

An Ethiopian government jet bombed the capital of northern Tigray region on Thursday, with one doctor reporting 10 deaths in the latest casualties of a year-long war.

Recently Princess Mako of Japan renounced her royalty status in order to marry a commoner. While to Westerners this may sound like a story of true love conquering all, in Japan it has stirred up quite a bit of controversy. 

Although neither a trial nor conviction is likely to materialize, the Senate of Brazil has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with “crimes against humanity” for his handling of COVID-19 in the country. 

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said it settled civil cases brought by survivors and families of victims of a massacre in 2015, in which nine Black people were killed at a historic South Carolina church.