The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a landmark document outlining the fundamental rights and freedoms that belong to all people, everywhere. Adopted by the United Nations on December ...

Venezuela's government-allied National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously declared United Nations High Commissioner for Human ...

Arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment -- particularly during recent elections -- are among ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 16 people convicted of various crimes, including "extremism", ahead of ...

The budget reconciliation bill passed by the United States Senate today would extend tax cuts that disproportionately benefit ...

Five Cambodian environmental activists who have completed one year of their six to eight-year prison terms on baseless ...

The Tennessee General Assembly in its last legislative session dissolved the Tennessee Human Rights Commission, with ...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed concern over the shrinking space for human rights defence work in the ...

Nothing can happen until a complaint is filed,” said Jason Burkholder, who chairs a Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission's ...

There are growing fears that immigration raids could hurt next year’s FIFA World Cup in Miami and 10 other U.S. cities ...

More than 80 civil rights and labor groups sent a letter to FIFA expressing "deep concern" over U.S. immigration policies ...

The arrests come in the wake of a new law quickly pushed through the Iranian Parliament that could leave those convicted ...