Latin America’s top human rights court has issued a groundbreaking advisory opinion linking states’ human rights obligations ...

A well-known Toronto television personality says she’s reached a settlement with Bell Media in response to a human rights ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

The Venezuela government-allied National Assembly unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

As Ronald Reagan aptly said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” May that not happen on our ...

Factors including the size and remoteness of its location could mean abysmal conditions and limited access to counsel.

How western human rights discourse undermines authentic African struggles by curtailing domestic civil society COMMENT | ...

Earlier in his career as a senator, now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio positioned himself as a champion of strong ...

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

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 ...

Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly has declared Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for ...