The Canadian lawyer and long-time Amnesty International Canada secretary-general shared six principles for rebuilding ...

“We have to continue walking…We still have to cover a long distance, but we are in the right direction.” The event took place 20 March during the 69th Commission on the Status of Women, a panel of ...

I recently had the opportunity to give a presentation to a group of human rights workers during a training at Human Rights Watch. As is always the case when I prepare and deliver a presentation, and ...

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 ...

President Trump’s unconventional address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was short on specifics, but his administration’s recent actions have changed America’s human rights policy in ...

December marked Universal Human Rights Awareness Month, a global reminder that across borders, cultures and generations we are all human and all equal.

Adriana Smith was a 30-year-old mother and nurse. She was two months pregnant when she went to an Atlanta emergency room with intense headaches. She was given medication and sent home, but the next ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) submits the following with respect to Belarus’s implementation of recommendations received during its 2020 Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This submission is neither a ...

I believe in the cause of universal human rights. The presentation was far-ranging, moving from basic trauma theory, to a discussion of dissociation as a response to distress, moral injury (more on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Trump’s unconventional address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was short on specifics, but his ...

President Trump’s unconventional address to the United Nations General Assembly last week was short on specifics, but his administration’s recent actions have changed America’s human rights policy in ...