OSLO, Norway — Gatherings of human rights activists tend to feature commitments to the cause mixed with a lot of gallows humor — after all, many such advocates have survived and persisted in their ...

Unlike the more mainstream phrase “reproductive rights,” reproductive justice goes beyond abortion access. The social justice and human rights movement embracing health care access for all has grown ...

Whichever candidate Americans elect president on November 5 has a unique opportunity to reignite the global human rights movement, a drive that has stalled and been in decline for 20 years. The key is ...

A protest outside the European Parliament highlighted Pakistan's human rights issues. Jamil Maqsood of UKPNP called for ...

Human Rights Watch mourns the loss of Jimmy Carter, who made trailblazing contributions to the human rights movement during his US presidency and long afterward. Carter created a foreign policy agenda ...

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights saw its doors reopen on Saturday after a $57.9 million expansion added 24,000 square feet of new space, including several galleries, classrooms and ...

The demonstration in London was like so many others in the past year and a half. A swell of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, tens of thousands of them, banged drums and chanted against Israel. Although ...

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) continue their sustained assault on human rights and freedoms, including targeting human rights activists, enacting repressive laws, and using the ...

Muriel Nolen is director of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission. Dec. 10 marked International Human Rights Day. The day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United ...

The National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) celebrated Qatar Human Rights Day yesterday, which falls on November 11 each year. This year marks the 23rd anniversary of ...

The United States has a special interest in safeguarding the integrity of human rights because America is founded on the rights inherent in all persons, and the nation’s political traditions revolve ...