Jeff Page barely walks half a block along Skid Row's teeming streets before he's waved down by someone with a problem — taco trucks parked in front of a restaurant, drug dealing in a residential hotel or just a case of hard-luck blues.
Russian prosecutors say an anti-hate crimes campaigner has been shot and killed in Moscow.
An Ethiopian human rights activist who was jailed for 2 1/2 years said Friday that his country is less free today than it was during its disputed 2005 election.
A Michigan man charged with killing an abortion protester and a business owner told police he had guns loaded in his truck when he took two nieces and a friend to school just before the shooting spree.
A prominent opposition and rights activist in Russia's southern province of Ingushetia was shot dead Sunday in at least the third killing of a human rights defender in the volatile North Caucasus region in just over three months.
A Mexican human rights official is in U.S. customs detention, apparently for his own safety, after he reported 170 instances of Mexican soldiers allegedly torturing, abusing and killing innocent people in Chihuahua.
Records show a trucker charged with fatally shooting two people in Michigan, including an anti-abortion activist, was in a crash that killed two teens in Iowa nearly five years ago.
President Barack Obama on Sunday condemned the killing of an anti-abortion activist in Michigan as activists and others gathered for vigil near the site where he was fatally shot.
President Barack Obama is calling the shooting of a Michigan anti-abortion activist "deplorable."
An anti-abortion activist gunned down in a drive-by shooting was praised Wednesday as an unwavering worker for his cause, even if some people didn't agree with his approach of holding a sign depicting a dead fetus.
The Council of Europe's commissioner on human rights says Russia must prosecute the killers of a human rights activist in Chechnya this year, if it is to break a cycle of violence in the region.
A leading Russian human rights activist paid an emotional visit Sunday to the cemetery where her slain colleague Natalya Estemirova is buried, weeping at her grave and predicting her killers will never be never be brought to justice.
Cuba delivered a formal protest Friday to diplomats from five European Union embassies who visited the home of a jailed dissident.
A prominent Chinese legal scholar whose rights group has tackled some of China's most politically sensitive cases and his office assistant have been released on bail as authorities investigate possible tax charges against the group.
Prosecutors said Thursday they plan to seek the death penalty against the leader of an anti-illegal immigrant group and two others charged in an Arizona home invasion that left a 9-year-old girl and her father dead.
The subversion trial of a Chinese activist who had investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in a massive earthquake opened in southwestern China, as police detained and threatened the man's supporters.
The bullet-riddled bodies of a Chechen activist and her husband were found in the trunk of their car Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile killings in Chechnya under its Kremlin-backed leader.
The Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya said in a radio interview that a human rights activist whose bullet-ridden body was found in a neighboring province last month "never had any honor, dignity or conscience."
In stories on July 8, 9 and 10 about an anti-crime activist who was killed in northern Mexico, The Associated Press erroneously referred to the dead man and members of his community as Mormons. They identify themselves as Mormons but belong to the Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Times, which uses the Book of Mormon but is not recognized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A Chinese activist who questioned why so many schoolchildren died in 2008's massive earthquake has been charged with subversion and will stand trial in mid-August, his lawyer said Friday.
Chinese authorities seized dozens of newsletters from a nonprofit group that fights discrimination against people with hepatitis B, a campaigner said Thursday, calling the move retribution for the group's advocacy work.
Several dozen people attended a somber vigil in Moscow on Thursday for slain human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, who was abducted last week outside her home in Chechnya and found dead later the same day.
A Russian human rights activist has been found dead in a sand pit weeks after he went missing, according to police and a colleague who said Wednesday that he suspects the prisoners' rights advocate was murdered.
The respected Russian human rights group Memorial is stopping work at its office in the republic of Chechnya after the kidnapping and killing of one of its most daring activists, a Russian radio station quoted an official of the group as saying Saturday.
The White House says it's "disturbed and saddened" by the kidnapping and killing of a Russian human rights activist.