We’ve made progress in many realms of civil rights over the past decades in the U.S. The rights of African Americans, women, gays and lesbians, and handicapped people have expanded, thanks in part to ...

As conflict spreads, selective enforcement of human rights erodes protections for children. Recent conflicts expose a ...

We write in advance of the 100th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (the “Committee”) and its review of Ghana. This submission focuses on the rights of children with disabilities, ...

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 ...

Yana Lantratova was instrumental in helping the chairman of her party to illegally adopt an infant girl from Russian-occupied ...

The number of Haitians killed by criminal gangs in the first three months of this year have skyrocketed and armed gang violence remains the main driver of human rights abuses in the volatile Caribbean ...

Human Rights Day in South Africa commemorates the events of March 21, 1960, when police opened fire on a peaceful protest against the apartheid pass laws in Sharpeville, killing 69 people. The tragedy ...

Independent producer Uday Jhunjhunwala has unveiled the establishment of a fund, fiscally sponsored by Desipina Productions, for film, theater, prose and poetry projects centered on international ...

Queensland’s decision to override the human rights of children, particularly Indigenous kids, to make breaching bail a crime has been criticised.

The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under ...