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

Chimpanzees in Michigan are not considered “persons” with human rights, according to the state’s Court of Appeals. That means the owners of the DeYoung Family Zoo in the Upper Peninsula will not need ...

This week Brazil is hosting the 4th National Conference on the Rights of LGBTQIA+ People, an ambitious effort to chart new directions for public policy on equality and inclusion. Beyond its national ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Portland Stage is kicking off a new season with a one-woman play about Eleanor Roosevelt, the trailblazing first lady and human rights advocate who, in three decades at the forefront ...

GENEVA - The United Kingdom (UK) and Somalia yesterday co-hosted an official side event at the ongoing 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva under the theme “Somalia’s Human Rights ...

From 1948 to 1975, the Yellow Flag with three red stripes represented a sovereign Vietnam committed to liberty and self-determination. After April 30, 1975, the flag remains a powerful symbol of ...

When the world emerged from the horrors of World War II and vowed “never again,” nations laid the foundation for the system of international justice that now exists to address the planet’s worst ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Catherine Powell, an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former ...

African Americans have come through the storms and the struggles with great progress and achievements, “but the struggle ain’t over, baby,” declared the Rev. Harold A. Middlebrook, a Black civil ...

Medical supplies for the front are piled up at a railway station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1935. Back in America, Black educator Melva L. Price rallied support for Ethiopian refugees fleeing the ...