The US State Department will focus on “natural rights” like freedom of speech in its next human rights report, a senior State ...

The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. Ahead of the 60th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, ...

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Tuesday issued an extensive report detailing human rights violations in Venezuela following the presidential election conducted on July 28, ...

Concerns were raised at the 57th UN Human Rights Council about repression in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, urging accountability and safeguarding free expression. This statement was originally published ...

Authorities continue to discriminate against women, arbitrarily detain children, shut down civic space, and pressure human rights defenders. This statement was originally published on ...

The Trump administration released its new, drastically scaled-down version of the State Department’s annual human rights report after months of delay Tuesday. The administration’s assessment of human ...

When I first moved to Thailand in the 1990s to work with a small human rights organization, we waited for the annual U.S. State Department’s human rights report with bated breath. It was not because ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The United States has been publishing reports on human rights practices in other ...

Honestly, it’s all ancestral land. We thought like Natives do. We thought the settlers would never disturb their own graves, and so you think that [ours] would never be disturbed. As Natives, we think ...

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