We still have a ways to go when it comes to protecting universal human rights around the globe The importance of human rights ...

Prominent Kenyan human rights activist Boniface Mwangi was charged on Monday with unlawful possession of ammunition over his ...

A Savannah gathering commemorated the fifth anniversary of civil rights activist and former Georgia Representative John Lewis ...

El Salvador's most prominent human rights group says it's been forced into exile, citing threats and harassment from the ...

Three independent experts working for the U.N.’s top human rights body who focus on Israel and the occupied Palestinian ...

The concept of individual rights was transformational. The philosophers of the Enlightenment, like John Locke, were a primary inspiration for our founders, who then codified human rights into the D… ...

Bloodshed in Sweida left at least 321 people dead, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said on Friday, in a new toll.

Sexual harassment was among a number of employment-related complaints received by the Human Rights Commission last year, MPs ...

Lawyers in Peru are challenging a new amnesty law passed by Congress. The law grants amnesty to military members and ...

South Korea is considering legislation that would impose legally binding human rights obligations on many companies operating ...

International human rights and corporate social responsibility efforts continue to gain momentum. To mark the occasion of the 10-year anniversary of the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on ...