This brief is based on an extensive analysis of how human rights treaty bodies have engaged with individual states’ ...

It is not only ideology that shapes human rights discourse but also reference points, 'best examples', cases that at their most successful combine a victim, a perpetrator and a right.

Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed ...

Human rights obligations do not apply to national governments alone. There are dozens of self-identified “ human rights cities” in the United States—from Mountain View, Cali ...

Examples of non-state actor human rights violations are not, of course, confined solely to the United States and comparative incidents and remedies are instructive.

Examples of legislation that protected and violated human rights throughout American history are discussed in this bell ringer. This Bell Ringer explains key terms and vocabulary within the AP U.S ...

On December 10, the United Nations will mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In an era of spreading nationalism and gross violations in places like Yemen ...

Marietta Hedges yells at volunteer torture victim Maboub Ebrahimzdeh as human rights activists demonstrate waterboarding in front of the Justice Department, in Washington, D.C., on November 5, 2007.

GENEVA — The U.N. human rights chief said Monday that the violence and injustice faced by the ethnic Rohingya minority in Myanmar, where U.N. rights investigators have been barred from enteri… ...

Click through the gallery below for 10 examples of human rights abuses in the kingdom. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia also banned all public gatherings in 2011.

"Any act that attempts to politicize sports in the name of human rights and freedom violates the spirit of the Olympic Charter." With less than two months before the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics ...

Access to safe and legal abortion is a central human rights issue. Human Rights Watch’s experience, in particular in Latin America, has reaffirmed that women’s ability to decide if, when, how often, ...