Over three days, representatives from ministries of education, teachers, researchers, and civil society organizations debated ...

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

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

Ms. Starr is a law professor at the University of Chicago who studies discrimination and racial disparity. The Department of Education issued a threatening letter this month addressed to all ...

(Beirut) – A Casablanca Court on March 3, 2025, sentenced a prominent activist, Fouad Abdelmoumni, to six months in prison and fines over a Facebook post, Human Rights Watch and Democracy for the Arab ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has traditionally maintained that freedom of expression safeguards speech that may "offend, shock or disturb." However, its stance on hate speech is not in ...

The Idaho Legislature concluded its 2025 legislative session this month after passing hundreds of bills into law, many of which focused on changes to education systems. Some received national ...

In this third post in The Volokh Conspiracy guest series, I examine a critical issue in the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR) hate speech jurisprudence: its embrace of what I term the "low ...

Inger Andersen, of UNEP, urges courts to champion climate justice and environmental rule of law to protect human rights amid worsening climate impacts.

Pushing to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its chatbots caused a teen’s suicide, Character Technologies is arguing that chatbot outputs should be considered “pure speech” deserving of the highest ...

LONDON — President Donald Trump claimed that Europeans are losing their “wonderful right of freedom of speech.” Elon Musk told a far-right rally in London that Britons are “scared to exercise their ...