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 ...

Orders to embassies told them to ignore human rights issues like torture and instead focus on trans health care and abortion ...

U.S. officials will consider enforcement of affirmative action policies and state subsidies for abortion as infringements ...

More than 99% of the world's 7.7 billion people have one or more of their environmental rights threatened, according to new ...

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 ...

The CU Boulder research, the most comprehensive of its kind, meticulously assessed the global population’s exposure to conditions that violate five core environmental rights defined by the UN in 2022: ...

More than 25 years have passed since Americans have worried about large numbers of U.S. troops being captured. But before the war on terrorism is over, American families might again know the anguish ...

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, ...

The urgency to increase critical mineral security has sent more economically developed countries racing into resource-rich, less economically developed countries at unprecedented speed. There has been ...

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.