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

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

During the summer, as Britain’s government allowed Nigel Farage free rein on the airwaves, he was bloviating about leaving ...

The body that oversees the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is “absolutely ready” to consider changes to the treaty ...

Florida’s educational system has again found itself in the national spotlight after it became the first in the country to ...

We hear a lot about human rights, but what are they? Well, first of all, they're an idea: the idea that we are all born with the same rights and freedoms, as human beings. The idea was written down ...

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

W hen America’s Founders wrote the declaration that gave birth to the new nation, they began by saying that “a decent respect ...

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

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...