Universality was supposed to be the promise of human rights. Yet it’s been broken countless times. So how can we still ...

The United States’ decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council and, consequently, from this year’s Universal ...

The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member ...

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard ...

The value of the UPR for promoting digital rights comes from its ability to shape human rights norms (through the provision ...

Thank you to the INHR for hosting this event and to my esteemed co-panelists. I also want to welcome civil society colleagues ...

The very purpose of declared human rights is to remind governing powers and their legislature of our humanity. That is what ...

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has called for prosecutors and elected officials to hold the federal government ...

International human rights law lays down the obligations of Governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms of ...

Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng called for the worldwide recognition of universal human rights and proposed measures to end to the Chinese government’s repression of its people in a lecture ...

I believe in the cause of universal human rights. The presentation was far-ranging, moving from basic trauma theory, to a discussion of dissociation as a response to distress, moral injury (more on ...

I recently had the opportunity to give a presentation to a group of human rights workers during a training at Human Rights Watch. As is always the case when I prepare and deliver a presentation, and ...