The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations’ General Assembly in 1948. It was the first attempt to create a global standard of human rights – to define ...

Trump signed an order withdrawing the U.S. from the UNHRC, a 47-member international institution tasked with improving human ...

Eleanor Roosevelt holds a Declaration of Human Rights poster in Lake Success, New York, November 1949. The UN General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on ...

President-elect Donald Trump, who will take office at 10 a.m. Mountain time Monday, has outlined a slew of immigration executive orders and policy changes he plans to put forth starting on Day 1.

President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will withdraw from the U.N.’s top human rights body and will not ...