Denmark is the architect of a campaign to stop the births of Inuit people in Greenland from the 1960s to as recently as 1991.

These ten change-makers, including Jessie Street and Charles Perkins, are just some of the key Australians who prodded the ...

In communications sent to the Indian government on 19 January, the UN body warned that security, citizenship and conservation ...

A prosecutor said at least twice more people were killed in Iran in half the time compared with the Srebrenica genocide.

The U.N. human rights chief urged the Trump administration on Friday to ensure that its migration policies respect individual ...

The United Nations Global Compact encourages businesses globally to align strategies with sustainable and ethical practices.

Addressing the Human Rights Day celebration, organised by the National Human Rights Commission, in New Delhi on Wednesday, the President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu said that Human Rights Day is an ...

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.

Back in our newspaper days, we fell into a routine of publishing the Declaration of Independence every July 4. We’ve added a few documents through the years, including the Constitution of the United ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. Human rights issues—from equal treatment for ...

UN experts warned on Wednesday that El Salvador is misusing Interpol law enforcement mechanisms to further its political agenda by issuing red notices against two Salvadoran human rights defenders in ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights will mark its 77th anniversary on Dec. 10. The document was adopted by the United Nations on Dec. 10, 1948, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of ...