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

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 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 ...

Francesca Albanese, known for her regular attacks on the Jewish state, is scheduled to have her 3-year appointment renewed Friday amid pushback from US, European officials The post UN set to reappoint ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In this hybrid seminar, Professor Michael Posner traces the evolution of the business and human rights field and illustrates ...

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 ...