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

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

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

He was 62. “Haiti has lost its most prominent human rights lawyer at a time of overwhelming violation of basic rights,” Concannon, the nonprofit’s executive director, said in a statement.

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 ...

In 'Modernity and the Holocaust,' Jewish social theorist Zygmunt Bauman wrote about how rationalization can dehumanize a ...

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 ...

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 ...

but also a monumental leap in the history of human civilization and global human rights, according to the Xinhua News Agency.