The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday appealed for $500 million in extra-budgetary resources for 2025 to support ...

Speech by Michael O’Flaherty delivered at the PACE side-event “For a Permanent Platform on Interreligious and ...

Human Rights are often assumed to have a precise twentieth-century origin in the 1948 Universal Declaration or in the succeeding decades of increasing activism. However, the history of human rights ...

The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail ...

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 ...

Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10 to mark the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. This day is ...

United States President Donald Trump, on his first day in office on January 20, 2025, issued numerous executive orders that ...

Human rights groups have accused U.S. authorities of using Guantánamo Bay for decades to detain migrants fleeing Haiti, Cuba ...

M onday, Jan. 27, marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ten days prior to the ...

Check out our live coverage of the Day The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. United Nations Human Rights, together with the ...

Human rights affirm our shared humanity and underscore our equal worth. Yet history repeatedly shows us that these rights are neither automatic nor permanent. They must be continuously upheld ...

This day serves as a reminder for us to raise our voices against hate, misinformation, and lies, and to take actionable steps for the protection of human rights. Human Rights Day History Human ...