In "The Human Rights Sequence Theory of Atrocity: A Comparative Analysis," the researchers use data from annual human rights reports from the U.S. State Department. Few people have read these ...

Today, in an unprecedented move, Lady Tureiti Moxon has filed a comprehensive 42-page “urgent action/early warning complaint, ...

A U.N. meeting to review the United States' human rights record opened without the U.S. on Friday, with rights groups calling ...

More than 99% of the world's 7.7 billion people have one or more of their environmental rights threatened, according to new ...

Most rights, however, are not absolute in character. States can limit the exercise of these rights for valid reasons, including the needs of countering terrorism, as long as they respect a number of ...

The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member ...

The CU Boulder research, the most comprehensive of its kind, meticulously assessed the global population’s exposure to ...

I know what it is like to live under a government for whom human rights means nothing. I grew up under an oppressive regime where speaking out could cost you your freedom, and where torture was a tool ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has long needed to overhaul his approach to human rights. Hopefully his call to action announced in Geneva today is the start of something new.