The Universal Declaration of Human Rights—adopted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly to set a framework for the ...

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To Alex Neve, the core promise behind human rights is that they are applied universally: to everyone, everywhere, at all ...

Weaving together law, history, and stories from decades on the front lines of the struggle for human rights, Alex Neve investigates where we went wrong, how we have progressed, and what we can do to ...

The UKPNP has condemned the arrest of Kashmiri journalist Usman Tariq and urged international bodies to address curbs on ...

The Indonesian government established the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) as an independent institution ...

A group of 33 civil society groups, trade unions, and human rights organizations called on Tuesday for the creation of a new treaty that would enshrine labor protections and legal standards for ...

Each week, two readers discuss a hot topic in a parliamentary-style debate that doesn’t necessarily reflect their personal ...

Whoever wins the South Korean presidential polls has the responsibility to speak up about their violations in North Korea ...

An advisor to the Judiciary chief said the arbitrary detention of Iranian citizen Mahdieh Esfandiari in France is a blatant ...