Human rights issues—from equal treatment for minorities to freedoms enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights, such as speech, ...

Discover how trials in absentia work, what rights an absent leader still has, and why courts can prosecute even when the ...

President Trump’s unconventional address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was short on specifics, but his administration’s recent actions have changed America’s human rights policy in ...

U.N. systems have played a crucial role in highlighting Beijing’s human rights abuses. Now China’s government is stacking these very bodies with its own mouthpieces. The People’s Republic of China ...

The states parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will meet from December 1-6, 2025, in The Hague, for the annual session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP).

Bonita Meyersfeld has received funding from the National Research Foundation as part of her NRF rating. There is some disagreement among legal practitioners and scholars about whether corporations ...

In late 2024, the international football association (FIFA) announced that Saudi Arabia would host the 2034 World Cup. This means the world’s largest sporting event will be taking place in a country ...

The Council of Europe, of which the US is an observer, is drafting a treaty that will call on its member states to ensure that AI systems respect international obligations to protect human rights. The ...

At the 59th session of the Human Rights Council Thursday, the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights stated that the procurement and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Amnesty International demanded that US President Trump respect human rights during his term as president on Monday. On the day of Trump’s inauguration, the group alleged that Trump committed ...

PETALING JAYA: The Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) has called on member states to embed robust human rights safeguards into all future cooperation and trade frameworks. Its ...