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

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 ...

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

Astounding in their intellectual breadth, and almost frightening in their foresight, they provided the answer to the question ...

The Trump administration can still project a meaningful vision of human rights that is reconcilable with its focus on the ...

A woman holds a portrait of human rights activist and lawyer Rocio San Miguel during a demonstration outside Spain's embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, to demand her release, on Feb. 20, 2024.

The EU has already set crucial precedents with legislative initiatives that compel businesses to respect human rights. Examples are the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive — the first ...

A Palestinian human rights group lost a legal challenge against the U.K. government over supplying Israel with parts for F-35 fighter jets. Associated Press June 30, 2025.

To support and protect environmental human rights defenders, environmental defenders and whistleblowers. To prevent and prosecute environment-related crimes.

In this view, protecting any human right requires protecting all human rights. As an example, think of two distinct rights recognized in the Declaration of Human Rights: the right to adequate food ...

This week, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in North Korea issued an appeal to the international community. She expressed concern about the future of civil society work on ...

Human rights in one of the world’s most egregious authoritarian regimes are set to be diminished even further, thanks to another sudden funding freeze by Elon Musk.