Latin America’s top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

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We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

A letter from the administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism threatens all federal funding to the school.

The assembly proposed a list of rights to be protected, and also drew a number of articles directly from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The European Convention on ...

Human rights are the fundamental rights and freedoms that belong to every single one of us. The Human Rights Act protects these rights and allows us to challenge authorities if they violate them. You ...

The UN's top rights official on Monday urged the international community to confront the growing human rights implications of climate change.Speaking at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, High ...

Activists and ordinary citizens defending their rights to land and the environment face intimidation, legal harassment, and deadly violence.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a landmark document outlining the fundamental rights and freedoms that belong to all people, everywhere. Adopted by the United Nations on December ...