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 ...

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

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

The Human Rights Network for Tibet and Taiwan, in collaboration with various groups including the Tibet Youth Congress, Hong ...

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

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 ...

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council and ...

Amnesty International demanded that US President Trump respect human rights during his term as president on Monday. On the day of Trump's inauguration, the group alleged that Trump committed ...

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 ...

claiming a “massive” human rights violation is happening over a new land expropriation law ...

President Macron, accompanied by Minister Delegate for Europe (…) "France wants to set an example, not to teach others a lesson but because it’s our history ... 25 September 2012 Human rights are ...