Why do the rights of some seem to matter more than others? CBC Massey Lecturer Alex Neve looks back at the birth of the ...

Despite over 70 years of human rights declarations, why do millions still suffer in global supply chains? As the UN Forum on ...

The US State Department will focus on “natural rights” like freedom of speech in its next human rights report, a senior State ...

Citizens should not allow elected representatives to fail in having the U.S. finally join 196 other U.N. member countries in ...

World Children’s Day advocates and highlights children’s rights, developmental needs and protection from violence. This day is significant as the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the ...

A culture that continuously excludes and dismisses people on the basis of their Christianity can be guilty of what Pope Francis called “polite persecution” ...

COMMENTARY: The declaration of religious freedom shattered the communist claim that there was no sanctuary of personal ...

Some municipalities are still voting against policies that could help end homelessness. Here’s a better way forward.

Long before constitutional guarantees or modern rights charters, India witnessed a defining assertion of freedom of conscience. It came not from a monarch, parliament or court, but from the scaffold ...

The G20 summit underscored South Africa’s moral authority and soft power, positioning it as a key player in addressing global ...

History was awaiting a course correction for humanity. The Guru’s sacrifice brought about that evolution, it laid a fundamental principle of civilised co-existence: The right to practice one’s ...

This is the conscience of our age: the collective conscience of all who turn a blind eye. The situation is known by all but ...