BYU law professor Brett Scharffs delivered a message to the U.N. connecting human dignity and peace.

Few will dispute that the work of a human rights defender should take into account the cultural and social realities of a particular region. Yet, human rights campaigns often fail ...

A United Nations special rapporteur warned Friday that air pollution is contributing to widespread human rights violations worldwide, calling on governments to take urgent action to reduce pollution ...

Monkey stickers used to allegedly racially vilify a rising star basketballer had been handed out at an elite private school to promote positive mental wellbeing, a court has heard.

These Black activists fought for civil rights over decades. Here are their warnings, and advice, for American protesters ...

Geneva - Religious and human rights leaders on Thursday praised Morocco's model of religious coexistence in Geneva, on the sidelines of the 61st session of the Human Rights Council, highlighting the ...

For decades, US foreign policy has adopted the pattern of ‘selective liberation’—the deployment of human rights language when aligned with US strategic interests and its relative absence when it confl ...

Women aspiring to be judges were discriminated against between 1994 and 2023, according to the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights. Women appointed as trainee judges received a lower salary than ...

Ensuring every country commits to dismantling discriminatory laws, and to enforcing rights in practice is key to the UN CEDAW ...

These Black activists fought for civil rights over decades. Here are their warnings, and advice, for American protesters today.

Our new Magna Carta would protect the rule of law, universal human rights and trial by jury. Freedom of expression, a free ...

We need to change course now.