Fifteen immigrants’ rights organizations have submitted urgent reports to the United Nations and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, raising the alarm over systematic and grave human rights ...

Major-power cutbacks and delayed payments amidst conflict and insecurity are testing the very principles and frameworks upon ...

A UN groundbreaking report published in 1982 laid the legal ground for defining the inalienable rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The United States has a special interest in safeguarding the integrity of human rights because America is founded on the ...

A drone bomb struck the MSF hospital on Saturday, killing at least seven civilians and ...

The former executive director of the influential NGO Human Rights Watch says that authoritarian regimes are not indifferent ...

A United Nations (UN) human rights judge has been sentenced to prison for keeping a housekeeper as a slave. Lydia Mugambe, a ...

U.N. systems have played a crucial role in highlighting Beijing’s human rights abuses. Now China’s government is stacking ...

Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions asks it to submit evidence for independence and effectiveness ...

François Hollande, President of the Republic – opening debate of the 67th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 25 September 2012 Human rights are defined as the inalienable rights of ...