Human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky says the usual activists have given no attention to the devastation occurring in Iran ...

In every election, human rights matter. From local schoolboard elections to presidential elections, voters have the chance to choose candidates who will fight for all people’s human rights, not work ...

Countries throughout Latin America are facing an “alarming reversal” of basic freedoms, according to Human Rights Watch’s “World Report 2022,” released Thursday. “Even democratically elected leaders ...

The last two years have been miserable for basic human rights in several countries around the world, according to a new report by the U.S. State Department. China, Iran, and Russia, which U.S.

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(Berlin, October 5, 2022) – Vulnerable populations in Kazakhstan are not able to secure their basic social and economic rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Almost a million people are receiving ...

Not long ago I was asked to speak about “minority” rights and basic income at a symposium in Barcelona leading up to the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human ...

Brett Schaefer is the Jay Kingham senior research fellow in international regulatory affairs with The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. Read his research. The Universal ...

Today, we are witnessing a new systematic assault on human rights in the United States—and we all need to speak up. The new Trump administration has unleashed an unprecedented number of executive ...

The human rights framework is a powerful and successful tool for advancing a progressive agenda for women’s health and rights across the globe. “This is an issue of human rights, whether women can ...

New York’s highest court is set to determine whether Happy, a 47-year-old Asian elephant living at the Bronx Zoo, is being unlawfully imprisoned. Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), a nonprofit civil ...