Human rights

APTOPIX Saudi Arabia Hajj
Muslim pilgrims prepare to enter the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Human rights

No kids, excess heat and payment plans. What to know about Hajj 2025

JUNE 4, 2025

France Sports Banning Headscarves
Former player Salimata Sylla poses before a women's basketball tournament where players can wear a headscarf, in Aubervilliers near Paris, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)

France

AP’s deep, sensitive dive into France’s efforts to bar Muslim women in headscarves from sports

MAY 30, 2025

Afghan Refugees in Limbo
Negina Khalili poses for a portrait near her office in New Orleans, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Human rights

AP reporting highlights Afghans trapped in U.S. base in Qatar

MAY 16, 2025

Panama Deportees
Migrants from Afghanistan, Russia and China, who were deported from the U.S., ride an elevator after visiting the Australian Consulate in Panama City, with the hope to start an asylum application process, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Human rights

Panama team delivers fast and in-depth coverage of release of U.S. deportees

MARCH 21, 2025

Filipino Catholic priest Flavie Villanueva, left, consoles Melinda Lafuente, as she holds the urn containing the remains of her son Angelo, during an interment ceremony for victims of extrajudicial killings, at the
Filipino Catholic priest Flavie Villanueva, left, consoles Melinda Lafuente, as she holds the urn containing the remains of her son Angelo, during an interment ceremony for victims of extrajudicial killings, at the "Dambana ng Paghilom" or Shrine of Healing inside a cemetery in Caloocan City, Philippines, Wednesday March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Human rights

ICC takes custody of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in crimes against humanity case

MARCH 14, 2025

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Gaza
Displaced Palestinians walk on a road to return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, after Israel's decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Human rights

AP tells the story of abandoned ships and sailors stranded at sea without pay

FEB. 7, 2025

Peru Disappeared
Lidia Flores, the leader of the National Association of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Persons of Peru, poses for a portrait in Ayacucho, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Flores' husband was killed in Peru's internal armed conflict (1980-2000). (AP Photo/Silvio La Rosa)

Human rights

Peru’s disappeared: Dozens look for relatives lost to violence. A woman who knows their sorrow helps

JAN. 31, 2025

South Africa Dead Miners
Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Human rights

South African miner describes horrors for those who spent months underground

JAN. 24, 2025

Thailand Uyghurs Deportation
Police stand outside an immigration detention center of the Immigration Bureau where Uyghur detainees are held in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. The detainees say they are facing deportation back to China, where they fear persecution. (AP Photo/Haruka Nuga)

Human rights

AP first to report on detained Uyghurs in Thailand who face deportation and persecution in China

JAN. 17, 2025

(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)
(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan accused of ramping up repression of critics ahead of hosting UN climate summit

NOV. 12, 2024

France Migrants
A boat thought to be with migrants is escorted by a vessel from the French Gendarmerie Nationale off the Wimereux beach, France, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. A boat carrying migrants ripped apart in the English Channel as they attempted to reach Britain from northern France on Tuesday, plunging dozens into the treacherous waterway and leaving 12 dead, authorities said. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

COVID-19

A day after 12 deaths, other migrants risk their lives trying to cross the English Channel

SEPT. 5, 2024

Iraq Child Marriage
FILE- An Iraqi woman protests against a proposed law to permit underage female marriage in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, July 28, 2024. Rights groups and many Iraqi women fear the country's parliament will open the door to child marriages as lawmakers consider legal changes that would give religious authorities more power over family law. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Human rights

Iraqi women fear rise in child marriages as lawmakers consider giving conservative clerics more say

SEPT. 4, 2024

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