Human Rights Day 2025 will be marked on 10 December, marking the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the ...

The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, ...

Ms. Callamard is the secretary general of Amnesty International. Mr. Borello is the acting executive director of Human Rights Watch. When the world emerged from the horrors of World War II and vowed ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a landmark document outlining the fundamental rights and freedoms that ...

# TODAY, December 10, is Human Rights Day. And the theme this year is “Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials.” This theme was set by the United Nations to “re-engage people with human rights by ...

Volker Türk has the greatest respect for those able to hold onto hope when all appears to be lost. As United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, he has devoted his life and career to helping ...

Human rights violations are occurring daily, with marginalised communities suffering the most, freedom fighter and human rights activist Sultana Kamal said today (11 December).

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 ...

Autonomous weapons systems present numerous risks to humanity, most of which infringe on fundamental obligations and principles of international human rights law. Such systems select and engage ...

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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 ...