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Byline: Matt Schudel Ethel Kennedy, the resilient widow of Robert F. Kennedy who endured the assassination of her husband and other losses to emerge as a stoic and strong-willed protector [...]

After a long career as a union organizer, he came out of retirement in 2013 to form the South Texas Human Rights Center and provide lifesaving aid. Eddie Canales, a [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Leah Levin, a British activist who wrote a seminal U.N. book on human rights and who led a watchdog group that helped free the 'Birmingham Six,' whose [...]

This article is part of Overlooked , a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Human rights has long been considered [...]

Byline: Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, USA TODAY Network Carl Erskine, a fierce fighter for human rights and All-Star for the Brooklyn Dodgers who pitched one of the greatest [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald The witness was 88 years old. She spoke softly. 'My name,' she said, 'is Joan Jara.' It was 2016, in a Florida federal courtroom. Forty-two years [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Thomas Buergenthal, an international law jurist and human rights defender who witnessed the horrors of Nazi concentration camps as a boy, and oversaw cases that included restoring [...]

She was a key force behind a 1970s human rights movement demanding justice from Argentina's brutal military dictatorship. Her extreme leftist views later made her a polarizing figure. BUENOS AIRES [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Gerald Nagler, a prominent human rights activist who made risky Cold War forays into the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to lend support to dissidents including Nobel [...]

When her son vanished in 1975, she began a crusade on behalf of him and hundreds of others and became a voice of moral authority on the left. When Rosario [...]

Byline: Phil Davison Rosario Ibarra, whose decades-long struggle to uncover the fate of her disappeared son led her to become one of Mexico's leading human rights activists and the country's [...]

A respected lawyer, she focused on the victims of domestic violence and also worked hard to change discriminatory laws. AMMAN, Jordan -- Asma Khader, an internationally recognized advocate for human [...]

Byline: Emily Langer One of the most brazen acts of state-sponsored terrorism ever perpetrated in the United States took place on Sept. 21, 1976, when Orlando Letelier, a Chilean exile [...]

He campaigned for human rights during the Soviet era and continued his activism in the post-Communist years under Boris A. Yeltsin and Vladimir V. Putin. Sergei A. Kovalev, a dogged [...]

She helped start the nonprofit after documenting atrocities in Latin America. She was also a pioneering educator at M.I.T. and Harvard. Dr. Carola Eisenberg, who broke gender barriers as a [...]

Byline: Emily Langer 'My experience as a woman in war,' Jan Ruff-O'Herne once said, 'is one of utter degradation, humiliation and unbearable suffering.' It lasted long after her internment by [...]