TODAY, CITY LEADERS CAME TOGETHER TO COMMEMORATE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, AND THEY ALSO WANTED TO REMIND THE PEOPLE OF PITTSBURGH THAT THE WORK IS FAR FROM DONE. THEY UNDERSTAND THAT NO ONE ...

International human rights law lays down the obligations of Governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms of ...

Human Rights Day was celebrated around the world earlier this month with little fanfare in the United States. This annual observance acknowledges Dec. 10, 1948, when the United Nations General ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations’ General Assembly following World War II and the Holocaust, was meant to eternalize the solemn vow “Never Again.” It was ...

Today, Dec. 10 is Human Rights Day, a moment when the world acknowledges the anniversary of the 1948 passage of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. On a planet in constant upheaval there ...

The United States will not participate in the next United Nations-administered peer review of its human rights records, the latest move in the nation’s withdrawal from the U.N. Human Rights Council.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will not participate in the upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council that calls for each UN Member State ...