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

Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, an annual global campaign that ends on December ...

Does anyone really read the Democrat and Republican Party Platforms? This year, the Republican Party apparently decided that it wasn't even worth the time required to update their 2016 document for ...

Our new US corporate human rights index examines the human rights policies and commitments of 54 US companies in the ...

Human rights are granted to people simply for existing. They are universal—meaning they’re applicable to everyone, regardless of whether the country you live in specifically offers the rights and ...

This report documents the Israeli army’s continued use in the West Bank today of expansive military orders issued in the early days of the occupation that suspend civil rights for Palestinians: the ...

The group of 21 activists provided examples of how crypto assists people around the world, saying “tens of millions” rely on Bitcoin and stablecoins as a way to access financial tools. Human rights ...

Human rights violations aren’t like natural disasters. They are frequently planned and executed by government officials or their agents – whether it’s the mass arbitrary detention of Uyghurs in China, ...

Businesses are facing a new generation of human rights requirements, with regulations like the U.S. Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (SCDDA), and a ...

The phrase "human rights" may be used in an abstract and philosophical sense, either as denoting a special category of moral claim that all humans may invoke or, more pragmatically, as the ...

Some god-terms that issue from the media, and which I had the misfortune of hearing incessantly as an academic, make me wince as soon as they come out of someone’s mouth. Among these particularly ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has long needed to overhaul his approach to human rights. Hopefully his call to action announced in Geneva today is the start of something new.