Human Rights Day 2025 is observed on December 10 with the theme “Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials.” Here's the meaning, ...

In this post I look at my book's key findings on the effects of hate speech and the controversies surrounding its regulation. This analysis lays out the groundwork for understanding both the harms ...

Keynote Speech by Gianluca Esposito, Director General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe Ladies and Gentlemen, esteemed colleagues, friends, ...

Thank you, Scott, for your human rights leadership over decades and your all too kind words. It’s an incredible honor to follow in your footsteps and those of the other remarkable Tex Harris Awardees.

President Lai Ching-te marked World Human Rights Day by highlighting Taiwan’s global democratic influence and citing the ...

"We along with our European and international partners just walked out of the human rights council as the Russian deputy foreign minister spoke, because we stand with Ukraine, and we stand in favor of ...

Thank you for the invitation to speak. In recent weeks I have had the privilege of meeting courageous human rights defenders and journalists from across the OSCE region, in Türkiye, UK, Central Asia ...

Pushing to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its chatbots caused a teen’s suicide, Character Technologies is arguing that chatbot outputs should be considered “pure speech” deserving of the highest ...

In 1977, American Nazis fought for the right to march in Skokie, Illinois—a town filled with Holocaust survivors—and won. Nearly fifty years later, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was suspended for jokes ...

The United States State Department under President Donald Trump has quietly instituted a sweeping and controversial shift in its human-rights ...

The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under ...