The J. Shirley Denison Award has been given to Sharryn J. Aiken, current president of the FCJ Refugee Centre. She co-chaired ...

Courageous rights defenders are jailed all over the world for speaking truth to power. Freedom House documents their cases and advocates for their immediate release.

Human Rights Watch champions human rights law to force governments to protect people and prevent corporations from continuing to cause extreme environmental degradation.

The deaths of human rights champions Judy Thongori and Roseline Odede barely 10 days apart are such. I have known Roseline and Judy for ages. I served with Roseline in the Law Society Council when ...

Canada presents itself as a gender equality and human rights champion both at home and abroad. But it's also a global leader in mining, an industry with an abysmal human rights record. Under the ...

Eden Prairie is accepting nominations for its annual Human Rights Award to honor advocates of equality and diversity.

Eleanor Roosevelt joined forces at the UN with human rights champions from around the world to enshrine these freedoms in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Amid large-scale atrocities and ...