Romania’s history offers a disturbing, yet instructive, example. In 1966, the country’s communist government adopted “Decree ...

The Bill of Rights did not simply repeal unjust laws. It reclaimed our humanity. But the struggle for human rights is not frozen in history. It lives—and it evolves. We must safeguard freedom of ...

With Human Rights Day taking place this week, 21 March, it's important to remember just WHY we celebrate this special public ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war ...

As much as they hate anyone with some semblance of remaining moral sensibility, leftists are among the most preachy people in our entire culture, and yet they so often fail to practice what they ...

Her famous 1958 speech captures why human rights are for every one of us ... That’s why we celebrate the UDHR, not because of who wrote it into history, but because of those who used it to disrupt ...

Russia has detained what human rights activists say are thousands of Ukrainian civilians and has charged them with various crimes Reporters and human rights groups say the Trump administration's ...

The Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations sets as one of the Organization's central goals the reaffirmation of "faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human ...

Drawing on data from the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, Newsweek has created this map to show countries on the Human Rights Watchlist.

Human rights investigators suspected that incriminating ... Ball insists that Benetech's job is to "clarify history," not to dictate policy. Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom showed his support ...

HRTF organized its work around two core pillars: enhancing the understanding and application of human rights principles in the World Bank’s work. The First Annual Forum on Human Rights Defenders in ...

Almost 80 years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a gap continues to exist between the rights conferred and the daily realities for many people around the world.