Human Rights First today released an extensive new report detailing both positive developments and serious human rights concerns in Syria following the fall of the Assad government in December 2024.

This brief is based on an extensive analysis of how human rights treaty bodies have engaged with individual states’ ...

Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed ...

On the third day of the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), the spotlight turned to reports on rising executions ...

Astounding in their intellectual breadth, and almost frightening in their foresight, they provided the answer to the question ...

Promoting respect for human rights is a core purpose of the United Nations and defines its identity as an organization for people around the world. Member States have mandated the Secretary ...

The Trump administration can still project a meaningful vision of human rights that is reconcilable with its focus on the ...

Brussels cites ‘interference’ in Dalai Lama succession plan and jailed Uygur and Tibetan activists as examples of erosion of freedoms.

A woman holds a portrait of human rights activist and lawyer Rocio San Miguel during a demonstration outside Spain's embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, to demand her release, on Feb. 20, 2024.

The Trump administration is substantially scaling back the State Department's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison ...

Human rights in one of the world’s most egregious authoritarian regimes are set to be diminished even further, thanks to another sudden funding freeze by Elon Musk.

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