Human Rights First condemns the illegality of recent military action taken by the Trump administration in Venezuela and its announced plan to take over and run the country indefinitely. Venezuelans ...

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 ...

The political head of the body that oversees the European Convention on Human Rights has told the BBC that it is "absolutely ready" to discuss reforms amid pressure from the UK and other countries ...

Armed conflict dominates the headlines, from the hostilities in Israel and Palestine, to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, to the militaries and militias committing atrocities in Sudan. For ...

Though 2025 saw flagrant human rights abuses across the globe, the year also brought many positive developments.

For nearly 50 years in the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court asserted that the U.S. Constitution protected the right to access abortion under Roe v. Wade. But on June 24, 2022, the Dobbs decision ...

Earlier this month, the United Nations Human Rights Committee delivered a searing report highlighting the U.S. government’s failure to meet its human rights obligations under the International ...

In just one week, President Donald Trump has launched the most systemic and aggressive assault on human rights in U.S. presidential history. While the first Trump administration made similar attempts ...

Aged 75, the ECHR faces calls for retirement, while at 25, the Human Rights Act is also under attack. Fiona Scolding KC finds their links to peace, stability, respect and autonomy to be intact. So ...

The City of Ithaca has been awarded a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI).

Monash University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Australia is the only Western democracy that does not have a national Human Rights Act, but this may be about to change ...

Human rights violations became more visible across Bangladesh in 2025, with sharp increases in political and election-related violence, mob attacks, assaults on journalists, border killings, and ...