China on Friday slammed US criticism of its human rights and currency policies, alleging a campaign of defamation as relations between the two giant powers took a new lurch for the worse. China rejected a tough US State Department report on its rights record, and took aim at President Barack Obama's call for a "market-oriented" exchange rate regime -- code ...

A UN rights expert has accused North Korea's regime of turning the country "into one big prison," saying widespread abuses by Pyongyang put it in a class of its own. In a report due to be examined at the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, the expert, Vitit Muntarbhorn, said the ruling elite had created "a pervasive 'state of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia indignantly dismissed U.S. criticism of its human rights record on Friday, saying the United States was guilty of its own abuses from Afghanistan to "the streets of America." In a statement laced with sarcasm, the Foreign Ministry said the main purpose of what it called the U.S. State Department's annual "opus" on human rights ...

Two House Democrats are backing a bill that would outlaw discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the area of housing.

Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, along with Michigan Congressman ...