The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a landmark document outlining the fundamental rights and freedoms that belong to all people, everywhere. Adopted by the United Nations on December ...

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

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 ...

The concept of human rights within Catholic teaching is not a recent addition but rather has roots extending back to the ...

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

US human rights policy needs to focus to be effective. Specifically, it should revolve around three principles.

The story of Astrid Puentes Riaño is rooted in the soil of Colombia. Born in Bogotá to a family with campesino roots, her ...

Billionaires’ wealth increased by $2 trillion in 2024, while the number of people living below the poverty line hardly changed. The top ten wealthiest people in the world now own more than the poorest ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood used a speech in Strasbourg to set out how the European Convention on Human Rights 'feels out of step with common sense' and needed to 'evolve'.

A review by the bloc found Israel’s actions in Gaza may have breached obligations under a treaty that governs their relations ...