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

How do we or anyone else benefit from America ignoring the rights violations of nations like Hungary and El Salvador?

The Bachelor of Arts in Human Rights (HRT)—inspired by the rich human rights and civil rights history Birmingham, Alabama, has to offer—prepares students with the knowledge, skills, and awareness to ...

The state antidiscrimination law has a 20-year history that long predates a nationwide debate over transgender athletes in ...

The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, ...

The State Department under Marco Rubio seems to think little of human rights and seeks to change the term’s definition. NPR reports that the department will no longer include criticisms of poor prison ...

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 ...

This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begun scrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant ...

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 ...

Human rights are rooted in the ancient ideas of civility, equality and justice. The term is used frequently, but less often reflected upon. The philosophical belief that certain rights ...

Mr. Trump still has an opportunity — arguably, an obligation — to push for human rights as a central element of talks with Tehran. Doing so would place him on the right side of history ...