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By Sharanya KanikkannanSushil Raj Human rights are not just words on paper. Advocates, social movements and government champions have brought much needed positive changes by pushing for the adoption ...

The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday appealed for $500 million in extra-budgetary resources for 2025 to support ...

Kazakhstan should promptly express its support for and implement the recommendations made by member states at the UN Human ...

Lebanon’s new government should prioritize protecting and promoting human rights, accountability, transparency, and the rule of law, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to new prime ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations' women's rights panel over its recommendation that Japan's male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality ...

The Trump administration rejoined the coalition of governments, which was first adopted in October 2020 and are united around ...

Since October 2023, so many Holocaust scholars have gone out of their way to protect Israel,” says historian Raz Segal.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says his office will be seeking arrest warrants for those accused of ...

U.N. human rights experts and activists on Sunday condemned the arrest of an American, pro-Palestinian journalist in the Swiss city of Zurich, saying it raised concerns about freedom of speech. Ali ...

President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Egypt and Jordan take in Palestinians from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip is being met ...

Columnist Brad Gutierrez asks how did we arrive at a point where basic human decency was no longer a qualification for ...