Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Council District 11 Coalition for Human Rights and others protest in Venice in July. Protesters said that they were ...

A UN investigator has told Mayor Kevin Johnson that Sacramento may be violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It's all about the denial of drinkable water and sanitary facilities to ...

Newsom’s executive order mandates the removal of homeless encampments in California, prompted by a recent Supreme Court decision. Critics argue the order criminalizes poverty and continues failed ...

LA28 says it's given its "human rights strategy" report to the city, but officials haven’t been forthcoming about who has seen it and when it’ll be made public.

The globally known Human Rights Watch on Wednesday, August 14, released a report accusing Los Angeles city officials of criminalizing homelessness in their efforts to move the unhoused off the city’s ...

Editor's note: This opinion submission has been edited for length. I have spent some time trying to understand our unhoused friends and their significant challenges in Amarillo, Texas. I volunteered ...

“New Yorkers, and Mayor-Elect Mamdani in particular, have an open window of opportunity to fundamentally shift the city from maintaining the status quo between the haves and have-nots to actively ...

Human Rights Watch issued a voluminous report Wednesday castigating local officials and Gov. Gavin Newsom for criminalizing homelessness and failing to observe "an internationally protected human ...

LOS ANGELES — Human Rights Watch issued a voluminous report Wednesday castigating local officials and Gov. Gavin Newsom for criminalizing homelessness and failing to observe "an internationally ...