The Committee on House Administration convened Thursday aimed to overhaul the 1995 Congressional Accountability Act. Representative Gregg Harper, head of the committee, began the hearing by saying there is no place in...

Image-conscious Paris has launched a public awareness campaign to counter an often disregarded form of discrimination: fatphobia. The city on Friday unveiled the campaign, called "Fatphobia, stop! Taking action together,"...

France's national rail operator loses its bid to overturn a ruling that it discriminated against hundreds of Moroccan workers arriving in the post colonial era damaging their careers

The auto industry is famously male dominated forcing women in the field to fight sexism discrimination and unequal pay though woman car experts say having Mary Barra at the helm of General Motors is a very significant development

Hundreds of women activists in pink and purple shirts protested against President Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines on Thursday, as marches and demonstrations in Asia kicked off International Women's Day. Protest leaders...

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY New York - 19 October 2017 1. President George W. Bush speaking at a forum on "freedom, free...

A top UN body on racial discrimination has taken the unusual step of calling on the United States to “unequivocally and unconditionally” reject racist hate speech and crimes following a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and...

The last surviving member of the Kerner Commission says he remains haunted that the panel's recommendations on U.S. race relations and poverty were never adopted. But nearly 50 years later, former U.S. Sen. Fred Harris of...

Hundreds of Romani people gathered in Romania's capital Bucharest to protest against discrimination on Saturday.

The federal government charged Facebook with high-tech housing discrimination Thursday for allegedly allowing landlords and real estate brokers to systematically exclude groups such as non-Christians, immigrants and minorities from...

The Trump administration proposed revoking Obama-era discrimination protections for transgender people in health care on Friday, a move LGBT groups fear will result in some Americans being denied needed medical treatment.

California has become the first state to ban workplace and school discrimination against black people for wearing hairstyles such as braids, twists and locks.

Demonstrators gathered in central London on Saturday to counter a march held by British far-right groups. The countermarch, branded as anti-fascist, started near Britain's parliament and was peaceful, with the exception of...

House lawmakers are set to take a vote on H.R. 4, The Voting Rights Advancements Act, aimed at combatting voter suppression that Democrats say has occured in nearly two dozen states in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2013 Shelby vs....

When a man spewed anti-Semitic slurs and spat on her face, Shoshana Blum remembered her ancestors who survived the Holocaust, and instead of looking down - she defiantly stared at him eye to eye.

The most basic principles of sport have little to do with respect for human rights an NGO claims ahead of the Dakar Rally which gets underway in Saudi Arabia on Sunday (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

France's prime minister on Friday sounded the alarm over a sharp rise in anti-Semitic acts this year, pledging to increase efforts to punish perpetrators and police hate speech online.

House lawmakers are set to take a vote on H.R. 4, The Voting Rights Advancements Act, aimed at combatting voter suppression that Democrats say has occured in nearly two dozen states in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2013 Shelby vs....

VOICED: It's been 20 years since the the ban on gay people serving in the UK military was lifted. The government said sorry yesterday for what they had suffered during decades of discrimination -- an apology that was welcomed by many...

Civil rights leader Xernona Clayton and close friends met at her office in Atlanta to plan a Birthday celebration for congressman John Lewis 80th birthday in February.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has rejected allegations from the Jewish Labour Movement to the Equality and Human Rights Commission that since becoming elected he made the party a welcoming refuge for anti-Semites.

Judges must resist the temptation to bend their rulings to personal racial, religious or partisan preferences and instead uphold the rule of law, even when that leads to unpopular decisions, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas...

he Prime Minister told reporters on a visit to the International Aviation Academy in Norwich that he did not agree with the claim that his party has approached Islamophobia with “denial, dismissal and deceit”. “What we do in the Tory...

A bit hoarse and with an occasional cough, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg returned to the political fray Thursday, resuming a whirlwind schedule after taking a half-day to rest after getting hit with a bad cold.