Human rights

Paraguay Sex Education
Diana Zalazar and her son Ato Martino pose for a portrait at their home in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. Zalazar said she got pregnant after having sex with her first partner when she was 14 years old but that no one had talked to her about the risks of pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Human rights

Condoms can’t be trusted and boys don’t cry in Catholic Paraguay’s first sex ed program

SEPT. 3, 2024

Russia Freed Dissidents LGBTQ Couple
Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko, freed in a prisoner swap this month, relaxes on the grass in a park in Koblenz, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Human rights

Russian artist released in swap builds a new life in Germany, now free to marry her partner

AUG. 13, 2024

Israel Palestinians Inside Prison
Palestinian boxer Muazzaz Abayat, 37, holds his 2-month-old son Mohammed and daughter Mira, 5, at home in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wednesday, July 17, 2024, days after his release from Israeli prison, frail, disoriented and with no initial memory of his family. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Human rights

Released Palestinians describe worsening abuses in Israeli prisons

AUG. 12, 2024

Venezuela Election Fear of Repression
In this undated family photo, Venezuelan Edni Lopez, a political science professor and award-winning poet, flashes a vee sign at her home in Caracas, Venezuela. (Courtesy of family via AP)

Human rights

An aid worker’s airport disappearance stirs fear of repression following disputed Venezuela election

AUG. 8, 2024

Sierra Leone Mental Health
View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 28, 2024. The hospital was once known among locals as the "Crase Yard," or yard for crazy people. Now it's known as the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital. It has helped give the facility, the oldest of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, a new reputation. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Healthcare

Sierra Leone not long ago still chained mental health patients. A transformation is underway

AUG. 6, 2024

Migration Albania Italy
People gather on the beach as a migrant center is seen in the foreground in the port of Shengjin, northwest Albania, Thursday, July 25, 2024. Migrants rescued at sea while attempting to reach Italy are likely to see themselves transported to Albania from next month while their asylum claims are processed, under a controversial deal in which the small Balkan country will host thousands of asylum-seekers on Italy's behalf. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Human rights

From August, migrants seeking refuge in Italy could be taken to Albania pending asylum decisions

JULY 31, 2024

Paris Olympics Refugee Team
Refugee Team athlete Perina Lokure Nakang poses for a portrait, Sunday, July 28, 2024, during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Megan Janetsky)

Human rights

Refugee athletes want more of them to compete at the Olympics as migration takes global focus

JULY 29, 2024

Yazidi Onslaught 10 Years Returning Home
Hadi Shammo, 30, a Yazidi returnee, stands amid the wreckage of his destroyed family house in the village of Dugure in Sinjar, Iraq, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. "In the end we have to return here — our life is here" in Sinjar, said Shammo, whose family returned from a camp in Duhok area. "This is part of our identity." (AP Photo/Farid Abdulwahed)

Human rights

Ten years on, many Yazidis uprooted by Islamic State onslaught struggle to find stable homes

JULY 29, 2024

Prison to Plate Inmate Labor Heat
In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, prison guards ride horses that were broken by inmates as they return from farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. In September, several incarcerated workers along with the New Orleans-based advocacy group Voice of the Experienced filed a class-action lawsuit calling for an end to the farm line, and accusing the state of cruel and unusual punishment. But as temperatures soared in May, the men asked the court in an emergency filing to stop work during extreme heat. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Human rights

Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South

JULY 25, 2024

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Captain of the cargo ship Monarch Princess, Ievgen Slautin of Ukraine, speaks during an interview in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Feb. 5, 2024. Teeters Agency & Stevedoring, which owned the vessel, became insolvent and stopped paying dockage fees in Florida. Slautin said although he was still owed around $15,000, he thanked God he was abandoned in the United States. "If it was in some other country, I could have been left there to simply die." (AP Photo/Daniel Kozin)

Human rights

AP exposes story of shipowners who abandon their crews amid financial difficulty

JUNE 7, 2024

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Human rights

Looking past the daily story leads to moving narrative on journey from prejudice to acceptance

APRIL 19, 2024

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A migrant family from Venezuela eats breakfast alongside the railroad tracks in Mexico City, March 26, 2024. AP PHOTO / FERNANDO LLANO

Human rights

Data provides base for telling a deeply human story about Venezuela migrants

APRIL 5, 2024

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